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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The Purpose of homomorphic encryption is to ensure privacy of data in communication, storage or in use by processes with mechanisms similar to conventional cryptography, but with added capabilities of computing over encr…
User authentication and session management are two of the most critical aspects of computer security and privacy on the web. However, despite their importance, in practice, authentication and session management are imple…
A privacy-preserving roaming authentication scheme (PPRAS) for ubiquitous networks is proposed, in which a remote mobile user can obtain the service offered by a foreign agent after being authenticated. In order to prote…
Association rule mining is an efficient data mining technique that recognizes the frequent items and associative rule based on a market basket data analysis for large set of transactional databases. The probability of mo…
The emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm, provides a huge scope for more streamlined living through an increase of smart services but this coincides with an increase in security and privacy concerns, theref…
This paper presents a new framework for assessing and documenting the privacy risks associated with developing and managing internet applications. The Framework for Assessing Privacy of Internet Applications (FAPIA) prov…
With boost in the figure of cloud users and the magnitude of sensitive data on cloud, shielding of cloud has become more important. Competent methods are consistently desirable to ensure the information privacy and load…
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SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) systems are used to control and monitor critical national infras-tructure functions like electricity, gas, water and railways. Field devices such as PLC’s (Programmable Lo…
With large growth in technology, reduced cost of storage media and networking enabled the organizations to collect very large volume of information from huge sources. Different data mining techniques are applied on such…