Hardware-Aware QAOA for Honeypot Traffic Partitioning on 100+ Qubit IBM Quantum Processors

Denial-of-service DoS and distributed denial-of-service DDoS mitigation requires separating malicious traffic from benign traffic while minimizing disruption to legitimate users. Prior work proposed mapping honeypot traffic partitioning to a weighted MaxCut problem and solving the resulting graph...

Formulating Subgroup Discovery As a Quantum Optimization Problem for Network Security

While current network intrusion detection systems achieve satisfactory accuracy, they often lack explainability. Subgroup Discovery SD addresses this by building interpretable rules that characterize feature interactions associated with attack traffic. With large datasets, classical heuristic bea...