A Taxonomy for Large-Scale Cyber Security Attacks
In an effort to examine the spread of large-scale cyber attacks, researchers have created various taxonomies. These taxonomies are purposefully built to facilitate the understanding and the comparison of these attacks, and hence counter their spread. Yet, existing taxonomies focus mainly on the tech...
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| author | Fadi Mohsen Cornelis Zwart Dimka Karastoyanova Georgi Gaydadjiev |
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| description | In an effort to examine the spread of large-scale cyber attacks, researchers have created various taxonomies. These taxonomies are purposefully built to facilitate the understanding and the comparison of these attacks, and hence counter their spread. Yet, existing taxonomies focus mainly on the technical aspects of the attacks, with little or no information about how to defend against them. As such, the aim of this work is to extend existing taxonomies by incorporating new features pertaining the defense strategy, scale, and others. We will compare the proposed taxonomy with existing state of the art taxonomies. We also present the analysis of 174large cyber security attacks based on our taxonomy. Finally, we present a web tool that we developed to allow researchers to explore exiting data sets of attacks and contribute new ones. We are convinced that our work will allow researchers gain deeper insights into emerging attacks by facilitating their categorization, sharing and analysis, which results in boosting the defense efforts against cyber attack. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-252ea58757cc4762a5b95a7478b518182022-12-21T21:10:13ZengEuropean Alliance for Innovation (EAI)EAI Endorsed Transactions on Cloud Systems2410-68952022-03-0172110.4108/eai.2-3-2022.173548A Taxonomy for Large-Scale Cyber Security AttacksFadi Mohsen0Cornelis Zwart1Dimka Karastoyanova2Georgi Gaydadjiev3Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Groningen, The NetherlandsBernoulli Institute for Mathematics, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Groningen, The NetherlandsBernoulli Institute for Mathematics, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Groningen, The NetherlandsBernoulli Institute for Mathematics, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Groningen, The NetherlandsIn an effort to examine the spread of large-scale cyber attacks, researchers have created various taxonomies. These taxonomies are purposefully built to facilitate the understanding and the comparison of these attacks, and hence counter their spread. Yet, existing taxonomies focus mainly on the technical aspects of the attacks, with little or no information about how to defend against them. As such, the aim of this work is to extend existing taxonomies by incorporating new features pertaining the defense strategy, scale, and others. We will compare the proposed taxonomy with existing state of the art taxonomies. We also present the analysis of 174large cyber security attacks based on our taxonomy. Finally, we present a web tool that we developed to allow researchers to explore exiting data sets of attacks and contribute new ones. We are convinced that our work will allow researchers gain deeper insights into emerging attacks by facilitating their categorization, sharing and analysis, which results in boosting the defense efforts against cyber attack.https://eudl.eu/pdf/10.4108/eai.2-3-2022.173548taxonomycybersecurityattackslarge-scaledefenseportal |
| spellingShingle | Fadi Mohsen Cornelis Zwart Dimka Karastoyanova Georgi Gaydadjiev A Taxonomy for Large-Scale Cyber Security Attacks EAI Endorsed Transactions on Cloud Systems taxonomy cyber security attacks large-scale defense portal |
| title | A Taxonomy for Large-Scale Cyber Security Attacks |
| title_full | A Taxonomy for Large-Scale Cyber Security Attacks |
| title_fullStr | A Taxonomy for Large-Scale Cyber Security Attacks |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Taxonomy for Large-Scale Cyber Security Attacks |
| title_short | A Taxonomy for Large-Scale Cyber Security Attacks |
| title_sort | taxonomy for large scale cyber security attacks |
| topic | taxonomy cyber security attacks large-scale defense portal |
| url | https://eudl.eu/pdf/10.4108/eai.2-3-2022.173548 |
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