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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This study evaluates the application of predictive analytics for real-time cyber-attack detection and response, focusing on how statistical and machine learning methods can improve decision-making in Security Operations…
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The economy of today’s world is a data-driven knowledge economy, as electronic devices are mostly used for our day-to-day activities, through which organizations collect data actively or passively. The dimensionality of…
As cyberattacks grow in prevalence, Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) have become critical for securing network infrastructures. This study proposes an efficient IDS framework utilizing both machine learning (ML) and dee…
Content‑Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) systems have become increasingly crucial in healthcare as the volume of medical imaging data continues to grow exponentially. However, existing systems struggle to balance privacy pre…
Although Bitcoin enables pseudonymous peer-to-peer digital transactions, its transparent public ledger architecture allows for blockchain analysis that can compromise user anonymity. Despite the presence of wallets with…
The protection of sensitive medical information has become a critical concern in modern digital healthcare. This study introduces a Hybrid Architecture that ensures secure and reliable healthcare data management through…
Phishing attacks remain a persistent and evolving cybersecurity threat, necessitating the development of highly accurate and efficient detection mechanisms. This research introduces an optimized ensemble stacking framewo…
The contemporary world of high connectivity in the digital realm has presented cybersecurity with more advanced threats, such as advanced malware and network attacks, which in most cases will not be detected using tradit…
A smart door lock system based on IoT is presented which uses fingerprint biometric authentication, ESP32 microcontroller and Blynk IoT platform to provide a secure, user friendly and remote controllable access control s…