Mathematical Approaches Transform Cybersecurity from Protoscience to Science

Cybersecurity: From Engineering to Science

Engineers design and build artifacts bridges, sewers, cars, airplanes, circuits, software -for human purposes. In their quest for function and elegance, they draw on the knowledge of materials, forces, and relationships developed through scientific study, but frequently their pursuit drives them to use materials and methods that go beyond the available scientific basis. Before the underlying sc...

Incident reporting: science or protoscience? Ten years later.

From physical security to cybersecurity

Security is a critical concern around the world. In many domains from cyber-security to sustainability, limited security resources prevent complete security coverage at all times. Instead, these limited resources must be scheduled (or allocated or deployed), while simultaneously taking into account the importance of different targets, the responses of the adversaries to the security posture, an...

A systematic review of approaches to assessing cybersecurity awareness

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to survey, explore and inform researchers about the previous methodologies applied, target audience and coverage of previous assessment of cybersecurity awareness by capturing, summarizing, synthesizing and critically comment on it. It is also conducted to identify the gaps in the cybersecurity awareness assessment research which warrants the future work. ...

Discrete Fourier Transform Compiler: From Mathematical Representation to Efficient Hardware

A wide range of hardware implementations are possible for the discrete Fourier transform (DFT), offering different tradeoffs in throughput, latency and cost. The well-understood structure of DFT algorithms makes possible a fully automatic synthesis framework that can span the viable interesting design choices. In this paper, we present such a synthesis framework that starts from formal mathemat...