The overwhelming number of recent data breaches reported that hundreds of terabytes of highly sensitive information, including national, financial, and personal, have bee[...]

Software vulnerabilities have become increasingly pervasive and result in severe data and financial loss to organizations and individuals. One leading source of software [...]

The unprecedented increase in the number and sophistication of cyber-attacks (e.g., advanced persistent threats or APTs for short) has called for effective and efficient [...]

Botnets remain a potent threat due to evolving modern architectures, inadequate remediation methods, and inaccurate measurement techniques. In response, this research exp[...]

Securing the world's technological resources has become one of the largest challenges of modern day. From healthcare to national security, power grids to public safety, t[...]

Diffusion is a scientific phenomena that can be modeled by partial differential equations. In this dissertation we first explore the development of equations for local, n[...]

The real, complex network environment consists of an ever-increasingly diverse and large amount of data encapsulated in packets. Surveillance and monitoring of this traff[...]

Websites remain popular targets for Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks. Although the prevalence of XSS attacks is on the rise, many developers do not have the cybersecuri[...]

As cyber vulnerability and complexity increases, cyber attacks become highly sophisticated and inevitable. Therefore, cyber resilience is necessary to make cyber capable [...]

Cyber attacks cost companies and organizations billions of dollars each year. To alleviate this issue, security professionals and companies continuously attempt to disco[...]