Smart grid is the modernization of the legacy electric power system in which cyber computing and communications are integrated with the physical world of power systems. A smart grid provides efficient and cost-effective management of the grid by allowing real-time monitoring, co…
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Individuals, businesses and governments undertake an ever-growing range of activities online and via various Internet-enabled digital devices. Unfortunately, these activities, services, information and devices are the targets of cybercrimes. Verifying the user legitimacy to use/…
The dominant academic and practitioners' perspective on security evolves around law-abiding referent objects of security who are under attack by law-breaking threat agents. This study turns the current perspective around and presents a new security paradigm. Suspects of crime ha…
Scaling big data infrastructure using multi-cloud environment has led to the demand for highly secure, resilient and reliable data sharing method. Several variants of secret sharing scheme have been proposed but there remains a gap in knowledge on the evaluation of these methods…
Modern cyber attacks have evolved considerably. The skill level required to conduct a cyber attack is low. Computing power is cheap, targets are diverse and plentiful. Point-and-click crimeware kits are widely circulated in the underground economy, while source code for sophisti…
Hacktivist activity is becoming increasingly prominent within the cyber domain and society. The boundaries between cyber terrorism and hacktivism are becoming more unclear. Hackers are becoming more skilled and involved in socio-political matters, not only in the U.S. but also i…
Power grid is one of the most critical infrastructures in a nation and could suffer a variety of cyber attacks. With the development of Smart Grid, false data injection attack has recently attracted wide research interest. This thesis proposes a false data attack model with inco…
Cyber security is inevitable in hospital information network environment due to the advancement in cutting edge health information technology. Everyday, new applications are emerging to make sensitive health care information stored in shared resources to make it easily accessibl…
A new influence model for Cyber Security is presented that deals with security attacks and implementation of security measures from an attacker's perspective. The underlying hypothesis of this model is that Criminological theories of Rational Choice, Desire for Control, and Low …
Privacy is an essential value for development of human personality. In earlier times man used to possess personal property i.e. his land and house. Therefore, the privacy was related to personal property of him. Threat to his privacy was from government which has power of search…
Many residences from student apartment units to family homes use a range of smart devices to make the day-to-day lives of the residents safer and more convenient. The ability to remotely access these devices has further increased their convenience, but it comes with the increase…