Guide to Vulnerability Analysis for Computer Networks and Systems An Artificial Intelligence Approach

This professional guide and reference examines the challenges of assessing security vulnerabilities in computing infrastructure. Various aspects of vulnerability assessment are covered in detail, including recent advancements in reducing the requirement for expert knowledge through novel applications of artificial intelligence. The work also offers a series of case studies on how to develop and perform vulnerability assessment techniques using start-of-the-art intelligent mechanisms.

In addition to serving the needs of security practitioners and researchers, this accessible volume is also ideal for students and instructors seeking a primer on artificial intelligence for vulnerability assessment, or a supplementary text for courses on computer security, networking, and artificial intelligence.

Part I: Introduction and State of the Art

Review of the State of the Art of Vulnerability Assessment Using Artificial Intelligence
Saad Khan and Simon Parkinson

A Survey of Machine Learning Algorithms and Their Application in Information Security
Mark Stamp

Part II: Vulnerability Assessment Frameworks

Vulnerability Assessment of Cybersecurity for SCADA Systems
Kyle Coffey, Leandros A. Maglaras, Richard Smith, Helge Janicke, Mohamed Amine Ferrag, Abdelouahid Derhab, Mithun Mukherjee, Stylianos Rallis, and Awais Yousaf

A Predictive Model for Risk and Trust Assessment in Cloud Computing: Taxonomy and Analysis for Attack Pattern Detection
Alexandros Chrysikos and Stephen McGuire

AI and Metrics-Based Vulnerability-Centric Cyber Security Assessment and Countermeasure Selection
Igor Kotenko, Elena Doynikova, Andrey Chechulin, and Andrey Fedorchenko

Artificial Intelligence Agents as Mediators of Trustless Security Systems and Distributed Computing Applications
Steven Walker-Roberts and Mohammad Hammoudeh

Part III: Applications of Artificial Intelligence

Defending Against Chained Cyber-Attacks by Adversarial Agents
Vivin Paliath and Paulo Shakarian

Vulnerability Detection and Analysis in Adversarial Deep Learning
Yi Shi, Yalin E. Sagduyu, Kemal Davaslioglu, and Renato Levy

SOCIO-LENS: Spotting Unsolicited Callers Through Network Analysis
Muhammad Ajmal Azad, Junaid Arshad, and Farhan Riaz

Function Call Graphs Versus Machine Learning for Malware Detection
Deebiga Rajeswaran, Fabio Di Troia, Thomas H. Austin, and Mark Stamp

Detecting Encrypted and Polymorphic Malware Using Hidden Markov Models
Dhiviya Dhanasekar, Fabio Di Troia, Katerina Potika, and Mark Stamp

Masquerade Detection on Mobile Devices
Swathi Nambiar Kadala Manikoth, Fabio Di Troia, and Mark Stamp

Identifying File Interaction Patterns in Ransomware Behaviour
Liam Grant and Simon Parkinson

Part IV: Visualisation

A Framework for the Visualisation of Cyber Security Requirements and its Application in BPMN
Bo Zhou, Curtis Maines, Stephen Tang, and Qi Shi

Big Data and Cyber Security: A Visual Analytics Perspective
Suvodeep Mazumdar and Jing Wang

Dr. Simon Parkinson is a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science in the School of Computing and Engineering, University of Huddersfield, UK.

Prof. Andrew Crampton is a Professor of Computational Mathematics in the School of Computing and Engineering, and the Associate Dean for Teaching and Learning at the University of Huddersfield.

Prof. Richard Hill is a Professor of Intelligent Systems, the Head of the Department of Informatics, and the Director of the Centre for Industrial Analytics at the University of Huddersfield. His other publications include the successful Springer titles Guide to Security Assurance for Cloud Computing, Big-Data Analytics and Cloud Computing, Guide to Cloud Computing, and Cloud Computing for Enterprise Architectures.