Cybersecurity is the practice of protecting computer systems, networks, and data from unauthorized access, disruption, or damage. It spans multiple layers of defense, including network security such as firewalls and VPNs, application security such as secure coding and vulnerability testing, endpoint protection, identity and access management, and cryptography for confidentiality and integrity. Common threat categories include malware, phishing, denial-of-service attacks, SQL injection, and increasingly sophisticated ransomware campaigns; a 2026 industry threat report recorded more than 7,500 ransomware disclosures for the year, continuing a four-year upward trend. Modern cybersecurity research draws heavily on machine learning for anomaly-based threat detection, behavioral analysis, and automated incident response, alongside traditional signature-based and rule-based defenses. Other active research areas include securing cloud infrastructure, IoT device security, blockchain-based authentication schemes, and privacy-preserving techniques such as differential privacy. As an open-access cybersecurity journal, IJACSA publishes peer-reviewed work on threat detection models, security architectures, cryptographic protocols, and vulnerability assessment methods.
Published in International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications (IJACSA)
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Data is the most assets for any organization, stored either in individual systems, server, or cloud platform. Cloud, one of the trending storage systems being adapted now a day is the state-of-the-art of the advanced tec…
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As the digital economy flourishes, the use of blockchain technology for data trading has seen a surge in popularity. Yet, previous approaches have frequently faltered in harmonizing security with user experience, culmina…
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As cyber threats continue to evolve in complexity, the need for robust intrusion detection systems (IDS) becomes increasingly critical. Machine learning (ML) models have demon-strated their effectiveness in detecting ano…
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