SwarmSense-DNN: A Trustworthy and Decentralized Neural Framework for Proactive Anomaly Defense in Consumer IoT

The rapid growth of consumer IoT devices has introduced unprecedented challenges in trustworthy anomaly detection against AI-enabled cyber threats, requiring real-time, privacy-preserving, and scalable defense mechanisms. Traditional centralized strategies face critical limitations, including...

Cognitive Threat Intelligence and Explainable Federated Security Analytics for Distributed Infrastructure Systems

The increasing adoption of distributed infrastructure systems, cloud computing, Internet of Things IoT technologies, and edge-based architectures has significantly expanded the cybersecurity attack surface and introduced increasingly sophisticated cyber threats. Conventional centralized intrusion...

Accelerating detection engineering using AI-assisted synthetic attack logs generation

In this article 1. Core Idea: From TTPs to Logs 2. Approaches for Synthetic Attack Log Generation 3. Evaluation Datasets 4. References 5. Learn more Logs and telemetry are the foundation of modern cybersecurity. They enable threat detection, incident response, forensic investigation, and complian...

Age Verification in the Web -- Holy Grail to Control Access to Restricted Content

Age verification before accessing restricted content is critical to protecting minors from exposure to harmful material such as pornography, gambling, violence, hateful speech, and substance purchases like alcohol and tobacco. Currently, the absence of reliable age-checking mechanisms allows...

PenTiDef: Enhancing Privacy and Robustness in Decentralized Federated Intrusion Detection Systems against Poisoning Attacks

The increasing deployment of Federated Learning FL in Intrusion Detection Systems IDS introduces new challenges related to data privacy, centralized coordination, and susceptibility to poisoning attacks. While significant research has focused on protecting traditional FL-IDS with centralized...

Next-Generation Cyberattack Detection with Large Language Models: Anomaly Analysis across Heterogeneous Logs

This project explores large language models LLMs for anomaly detection across heterogeneous log sources. Traditional intrusion detection systems suffer from high false positive rates, semantic blindness, and data scarcity, as logs are inherently sensitive, making clean datasets rare. We address...

QCL-IDS: Quantum Continual Learning for Intrusion Detection with Fidelity-Anchored Stability and Generative Replay

Continual intrusion detection must absorb newly emerging attack stages while retaining legacy detection capability under strict operational constraints, including bounded compute and qubit budgets and privacy rules that preclude long-term storage of raw telemetry. We propose QCL-IDS, a...

Security in the Era of Perceptive Networks: A Comprehensive Taxonomic Framework for Integrated Sensing and Communication Security

Integrated Sensing and Communication ISAC represents a significant shift in the 6G landscape, where wireless networks both sense the environment and communicate. While prior comprehensive surveys have established foundational elements of ISAC security, discussed perception-focused security models...

Comparative Evaluation of VAE, GAN, and SMOTE for Tor Detection in Encrypted Network Traffic

Encrypted network traffic poses significant challenges for intrusion detection due to the lack of payload visibility, limited labeled datasets, and high class imbalance between benign and malicious activities. Traditional data augmentation methods struggle to preserve the complex temporal and...

An Efficient Privacy-Preserving Intrusion Detection Scheme for UAV Swarm Networks

The rapid proliferation of unmanned aerial vehicles UAVs and their applications in diverse domains, such as surveillance, disaster management, agriculture, and defense, have revolutionized modern technology. While the potential benefits of swarm-based UAV networks are growing significantly, they...

DualTAP: A Dual-Task Adversarial Protector for Mobile MLLM Agents

The reliance of mobile GUI agents on Multimodal Large Language Models MLLMs introduces a severe privacy vulnerability: screenshots containing Personally Identifiable Information PII are often sent to untrusted, third-party routers. These routers can exploit their own MLLMs to mine this data,...

Trustworthy Quantum Machine Learning: A Roadmap for Reliability, Robustness, and Security in the NISQ Era

Quantum machine learning QML is a promising paradigm for tackling computational problems that challenge classical AI. Yet, the inherent probabilistic behavior of quantum mechanics, device noise in NISQ hardware, and hybrid quantum-classical execution pipelines introduce new risks that prevent...

Towards Adapting Federated and Quantum Machine Learning for Network Intrusion Detection: a Survey

This survey explores the integration of Federated Learning FL with Network Intrusion Detection Systems NIDS, with particular emphasis on deep learning and quantum machine learning approaches. FL enables collaborative model training across distributed devices while preserving data privacy-a critic...

SecureFixAgent: a Hybrid LLM Agent for Automated Python Static Vulnerability Repair

Modern software development pipelines face growing challenges in securing large codebases with extensive dependencies. Static analysis tools like Bandit are effective at vulnerability detection but suffer from high false positives and lack repair capabilities. Large Language Models LLMs, in...

Privacy-Preserving Authentication for Military 5G Networks

As 5G networks gain traction in defense applications, ensuring the privacy and integrity of the Authentication and Key Agreement AKA protocol is critical. While 5G AKA improves upon previous generations by concealing subscriber identities, it remains vulnerable to replay-based synchronization and...

AegisBlock: a Privacy-Preserving Medical Research Framework Using Blockchain

Due to HIPAA and other privacy regulations, it is imperative to maintain patient privacy while conducting research on patient health records. In this paper, we propose AegisBlock, a patient-centric access controlled framework to share medical records with researchers such that the anonymity of th...

Differential Privacy for Regulatory Compliance in Cyberattack Detection on Critical Infrastructure Systems

Industrial control systems are a fundamental component of critical infrastructure networks CIN such as gas, water and power. With the growing risk of cyberattacks, regulatory compliance requirements are also increasing for large scale critical infrastructure systems comprising multiple utility...

PRvL: Quantifying the Capabilities and Risks of Large Language Models for PII Redaction

Redacting Personally Identifiable Information PII from unstructured text is critical for ensuring data privacy in regulated domains. While earlier approaches have relied on rule-based systems and domain-specific Named Entity Recognition NER models, these methods fail to generalize across formats...

Next-Generation Quantum Neural Networks: Enhancing Efficiency, Security, and Privacy

This paper provides an integrated perspective on addressing key challenges in developing reliable and secure Quantum Neural Networks QNNs in the Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum NISQ era. In this paper, we present an integrated framework that leverages and combines existing approaches to enhance...

C-AAE: Compressively Anonymizing Autoencoders for Privacy-Preserving Activity Recognition in Healthcare Sensor Streams

Wearable accelerometers and gyroscopes encode fine-grained behavioural signatures that can be exploited to re-identify users, making privacy protection essential for healthcare applications. We introduce C-AAE, a compressive anonymizing autoencoder that marries an Anonymizing AutoEncoder AAE with...