Versatile Cybersecurity

by Mauro Conti (Editor), Gaurav Somani (Editor), Radha Poovendran (Editor)

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 chapters from 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. 

286 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 17, 2018

About the author

Mauro Conti received his MSc and his PhD in Computer Science (advisor Prof. Luigi V. Mancini) from Sapienza University of Rome, Italy , in 2005 and 2009, respectively. In 2008, he was Visiting Researcher (supervised by Prof. Sushil Jajodia) at the Center for Secure Information Systems (CSIS) at George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA . In 2009 he was selected for the ERCIM (European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics) "Alain Bensoussan" Fellowship (currently a EU Marie Curie COFUND action) . From 2009 to 2011 he was Postdoctoral Researcher (supervised by Prof. Andrew S. Tanenbaum and Prof. Bruno Crispo) at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands . In November 2010, he was visiting researcher at UCLA - University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA (working with Prof. Mario Gerla). In 2011, he joined University of Padua, Italy , (among the best italian universities) as Assistant Professor (tenured faculty). In the summer of 2012, 2013, and 2014 he was visiting Assistant Professor at UCI - University of California, Irvine, CA, USA (working with Prof. Gene Tsudik). From 2012, he is a EU Marie Curie Fellow . In October-November 2013 he was a DAAD Fellow at the Center for Advance Security Research Darmstadt (CASED), TU Darmstadt, Germany (working with Prof. Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi). In 2014, he was elevated to the IEEE Senior Member grade, and in 2015 he became Associate Professor.
His research interests are mainly in the area of security and privacy. In this area, he published more than 120 papers in topmost international peer-reviewed journals and conferences, including IEEE TIFS, IEEE TDSC, IEEE TPDS, ACM TWEB, IEEE TSC, IEEE COMST, ACM CCS, ACM AsiaCCS, ACM WiSec, ACM SACMAT, ACM MobiHoc, ACNS, IEEE ICDCS, and ESORICS. He is Associate Editor for IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials and IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, and he served as Program Committee member of several conferences, including ACM WiSec, ACM CODASPY, ACM SACMAT, IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE CNS, IEEE PASSAT, IEEE MASS, and ACNS. He was panelist at ACM CODASPY 2011. He was General Chair for SecureComm 2012 and ACM SACMAT 2013, and Program Chair for TRUST 2015, and ICISS '16.