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Versatile Cybersecurity

  • Provides focused content related to specific attacks or attack families irrespective of the attack target or victim application
  • Includes relevant open research directions at the end of each chapter
  • Targets advanced-level students, researchers and professionals working in the security research area to systematically study how the major attacks are studied, modeled, planned and combated by the community

Part of the book series: Advances in Information Security (ADIS, volume 72)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
  2. An Android-Based Covert Channel Framework on Wearables Using Status Bar Notifications

    • Kyle Denney, A. Selcuk Uluagac, Hidayet Aksu, Kemal Akkaya
    Pages 1-17
  3. Insider Threat Detection: Machine Learning Way

    • Mehul S. Raval, Ratnik Gandhi, Sanjay Chaudhary
    Pages 19-53
  4. Protection Against Semantic Social Engineering Attacks

    • Ryan Heartfield, George Loukas
    Pages 99-140
  5. Botnet-Based Attacks and Defence Mechanisms

    • Dilara Acarali, Muttukrishnan Rajarajan
    Pages 169-199
  6. Catastrophic Cyber-Physical Malware

    • Suresh Kothari, Ganesh Ram Santhanam, Payas Awadhutkar, Benjamin Holland, Jon Mathews, Ahmed Tamrawi
    Pages 201-255
  7. Cross-VM Attacks: Attack Taxonomy, Defense Mechanisms, and New Directions

    • Gulshan Kumar Singh, Gaurav Somani
    Pages 257-286

About this book

Cyber security research is one of the important areas in the computer science domain which also plays a major role in the life of almost every individual, enterprise, society and country, which this book illustrates. A large number of advanced security books focus on either cryptography or system security which covers both information and network security. However, there is hardly any books available for advanced-level students and research scholars in security research to systematically study how the major attacks are studied, modeled, planned and combated by the community. This book aims to fill this gap.

 This book provides focused content related to specific attacks or attack families. These dedicated discussions in the form of individual chapters covers the application or area specific aspects, while discussing  the placement of defense solutions to combat the attacks. It includes eight high quality chaptersfrom established security research groups worldwide,  which address important attacks from theoretical (modeling) as well as practical aspects.

 Each chapter brings  together comprehensive and structured information on an attack or an attack family. The authors present crisp detailing on the state of the art with quality illustration of defense mechanisms and open research problems. This book also covers various important attacks families such as insider threats, semantics social engineering attacks, distributed denial of service attacks, botnet based attacks, cyber physical malware based attacks, cross-vm attacks, and IoT covert channel attacks.

 This book will serve the interests of  cyber security enthusiasts, undergraduates, post-graduates, researchers and professionals working in this field. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Mathematics, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

    Mauro Conti

  • Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Central University of Rajasthan, Ajmer, India

    Gaurav Somani

  • Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

    Radha Poovendran

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Versatile Cybersecurity

  • Editors: Mauro Conti, Gaurav Somani, Radha Poovendran

  • Series Title: Advances in Information Security

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97643-3

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-97642-6Published: 15 December 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-97643-3Published: 17 October 2018

  • Series ISSN: 1568-2633

  • Series E-ISSN: 2512-2193

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 286

  • Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations, 51 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Security, Computer Communication Networks, Systems and Data Security

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eBook USD 149.00
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Hardcover Book USD 199.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
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