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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Leveraging Security Data for a Quantitative Evaluation of Security Mitigation Strategies

Di Tizio, Giorgio 26 April 2023 (has links)
Keeping users’ and organizations’ data secure is a challenging task. The situation is made more complicated due to the ever-increasing complex dependencies among IT systems. In this scenario, current approaches for risk assessment and mitigation rely on industry best practices based on qualitative assessments that do not provide any measure of their effectiveness. In this Thesis, we argue that the rich availability of data about IT infrastructures and adversaries must be employed to quantitatively measure the risk and the effectiveness of security mitigation strategies. Our goal is to show that quantitative measures of effectiveness and cost using security data are not only possible but also beneficial for both individual users and organizations to identify the most appropriate security plan. To this aim, we employed a heterogeneous set of security data spanning from blacklist feeds and software vulnerability repositories to web third-party dynamics, criminal forums, and threat intelligence reports. We use this data to model attackers and security mitigation strategies and evaluate their effectiveness in mitigating attacks. We start with an evaluation of filter lists of privacy extensions to protect individuals’ privacy when browsing the Web. We then consider the security of billions of users accessing the Top 5K Alexa domains and evaluated the effectiveness and cost of security mitigations at different levels of the Internet infrastructure. We then evaluate the accuracy of SOC analysts in investigating alerts related to cyber attacks targeting a network. Finally, we develop methodologies for the analysis of the effectiveness of ML models to detect criminal discussions in forums and software updates to protect against targeted attacks performed by nation-state groups.
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Datenschutz und Technikgestaltung

Pohle, Jörg 03 May 2018 (has links)
Ziel der vorliegenden Arbeit ist es, die historische Konstruktion des Datenschutzproblems, des Datenschutzes als seiner (abstrakten) Lösung sowie die Architektur seiner rechtlichen Implementation aufzudecken und einer kritischen Revision aus informatischer Sicht zu unterziehen, um daraus Folgerungen für die Technikgestaltung zu ziehen. Die Arbeit legt offen, welches Verständnis vom Menschen und von der Gesellschaft, von Organisationen, von der Informationstechnik und von der Informationsverarbeitung, welche informatischen, informationswissenschaftlichen, soziologischen und rechtswissenschaftlichen Konzepte, Denkschulen und Theoriegebäude und welche wissenschaftlichen und vorwissenschaftlichen Annahmen und Prämissen der Analyse des Datenschutzproblems zugrunde liegen und wie sie darüber hinaus die spezifische Lösung des Datenschutzproblems – den Datenschutz – gespeist haben. Auf der Basis einer informatisch fundierten Kritik zieht die Arbeit den Schluss, dass der Datenschutz als Lösung des durch die Industrialisierung der gesellschaftlichen Informationsverarbeitung erzeugten Datenmachtproblems neu abgeleitet werden muss, und legt dafür ein dem Stand der wissenschaftlichen Debatte entsprechendes, abstraktes – und damit jeweils noch anwendungsbereichsspezifisch zu konkretisierendes – Datenschutz-Angreifermodell, ein analytisches Raster für eine darauf aufbauende Bedrohungsanalyse sowie einen prozeduralen Operationalisierungsansatz, der die Vorgehensweise und die jeweils zu analysierenden oder zu prüfenden inhaltlichen Fragen deutlich werden lässt, vor. Abschließend zieht die Arbeit Folgerungen für die Gestaltung datenschutzfreundlicher – und dabei nicht notwendig nur datenschutzrechtskonformer – informationstechnischer Systeme. / The aim of this thesis is to uncover the historical construction of the data protection problem, of data protection as its (abstract) solution, as well as the architecture of its legal implementation, in order to critically assess this construction and to draw conclusions for the design of ICT systems. The thesis reveals which concepts of humankind and society, organizations, information technology and information processing, which informatics, information science, sociological and jurisprudential concepts, schools of thought and theories, and which scientific and pre-scientific assumptions and premises underlie the analysis of the data protection problem, and how they have influenced the specific solution of this problem. Based on a critical assessment of this construction the thesis concludes that data protection must be re-derived as a solution for the information power problem, which is generated by the industrialization of social information processing, and presents an abstract, state-of-the-art data protection attacker model, an analytical framework for a data protection impact assessment as well as a procedural operationalization approach illustrating the sequence as well as the substantive issues to be examined and addressed in this process. The thesis then draws conclusions for the design of data protection friendly—and not necessarily just legally compliant—ICT systems.

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