ABSTRACT

THREAT INTELLIGENCE AND DETECTION

The increasing use of ICT in more areas of human activity has created new possible threats and attack modalities compromising a variety of different targets. New technologies such as IoT, Wearables etc. are not hardened against cyber-attacks. Critical Industrial Systems are targets of new malware. DDOS and phishing attacks have become more common than ever, while new threats and new types of malware (such as ransomware, mining malware etc.) prove difficult to combat. It is, therefore, an imperative need to further improve threat intelligence and gain a better understanding of how threats develop and what makes them persist. Therefore, actions are expected to lead to improved threat intelligence and threat modelling, solutions to simulate attacks, design of component- and system-level penetration testing, intrusion and attack detection and overall improved protection of a variety of targets, be it desktop/mobile devices, wearables, individuals, IoT etc.