Versatile Cybersecurity

Cyber security research is one of the important areas in the computer science domain which also playsa major role in the life of almost every individual, enterprise, society and country, which this bookillustrates. A large number of advanced security books focus on either cryptography orsystem security which covers both information and network security.However, there is hardly any books available for advanced-level students andresearch scholars in security research to systematically study how themajor attacks are studied, modeled, planned and combated by thecommunity. This book aims to fill this gap. This book provides focused content related to specific attacks or attack families.These dedicated discussions in the form of individual chapters covers theapplication or area specific aspects, while discussing the placementof defense solutions to combat the attacks. It includes eight high qualitychaptersfrom established security research groups worldwide, whichaddress important attacks from theoretical (modeling) as well as practicalaspects. Each chapter brings together comprehensive and structured information on an attack or an attackfamily. The authors present crisp detailing on the state ofthe art with quality illustration of defense mechanisms and open researchproblems. This book also covers various important attacks families such asinsider threats, semantics social engineering attacks, distributed denial ofservice attacks, botnet based attacks, cyber physical malware basedattacks, cross-vm attacks, and IoT covert channel attacks. This book will serve the interests of cyber security enthusiasts,undergraduates, post-graduates, researchers and professionals working in this field.