Towards a threat assessment framework for apps collusion

A Conceptual Framework for Smart Hospital towards Industry 4.0

Background: The fourth industrial revolution consists of combining network devices with cloud computing methods and analyzing large data and artificial intelligence, which makes it possible to call such an infrastructure smart. In a Smart Hospital, all things and devices are designed to be connected and integrated, thus achieving better patient care, increasing efficiency and reducing time wast...

A Comprehensive Threat Assessment Framework for Securing Emerging Technologies

Wireless devices are becoming an integral part of the human environment and their seamless integration has created a range of new wireless sensor network architectures. Unfortunately the security of such networks often lags behind other advances and more often than not is developed only after the core systems and protocols have been standardized. This results in these security schemes having ca...

A Framework for Threat Assessment in Access Control Systems

We describe a framework for threat assessment specifically within the context of access control systems, where subjects request access to resources for which they may not be pre-authorized. The framework that we describe includes four different approaches for conducting threat assessment: an object sensitivity-based approach, a subject trustworthiness-based approach and two additional approache...

Security Threat Assessment: towards 2015 Elections

A collusion mitigation scheme for reputation systems

Reputation management systems are in wide-spread use to regulate collaborations in cooperative systems. Collusion is one of the most destructive malicious behaviors in which colluders seek to affect a reputation management system in an unfair manner. Many reputation systems are vulnerable to collusion, and some model-specific mitigation methods are proposed to combat collusion. Detection of col...