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Secure Cloud-Based Iot Water Quality Gathering For Analysis And Visualization, Soin Abdoul Kassif Baba M Traore, Maria Valero, Amy Gruss
Secure Cloud-Based Iot Water Quality Gathering For Analysis And Visualization, Soin Abdoul Kassif Baba M Traore, Maria Valero, Amy Gruss
KSU Proceedings on Cybersecurity Education, Research and Practice
Water quality refers to measurable water characteristics, including chemical, biological, physical, and radiological characteristics usually relative to human needs. Dumping waste and untreated sewage is the reason for water pollution and several diseases to the living hood. The quality of water can also have a significant impact on animals and plant ecosystems. Therefore, keeping track of water quality is a substantial national interest. Much research has been done for measuring water quality using sensors to prevent water pollution. In summary, those systems are built based on online and reagent-free water monitoring SCADA systems in wired networks. However, centralized servers, transmission …
Cybercrime In The Developing World, David A. Ghelerter, John E. Wilson, Noah L. Welch, John-David Rusk
Cybercrime In The Developing World, David A. Ghelerter, John E. Wilson, Noah L. Welch, John-David Rusk
KSU Proceedings on Cybersecurity Education, Research and Practice
This paper attempts to discover the reasons behind the increase in cybercrime in developing nations over the past two decades. It discusses many examples and cases of projects to increase internet access in developing countries and how they enabled cybercrime. This paper examines how nations where many cybercrimes occurred, did not have the necessary resources or neglected to react appropriately. The other primary focus is how cybercrimes are not viewed the same as other crimes in many of these countries and how this perception allows cybercriminals to do as they please with no stigma from their neighbors. It concludes that …
Microtransactions And Gambling In The Video Game Industry, Christopher L. Antepenko, Samuel R. Rickey, Angel L. Hibbets, John-David Rusk
Microtransactions And Gambling In The Video Game Industry, Christopher L. Antepenko, Samuel R. Rickey, Angel L. Hibbets, John-David Rusk
KSU Proceedings on Cybersecurity Education, Research and Practice
The beginning of the 21st century has had a drastic effect on the video game industry. The advent of almost universal Internet access, the release of inexpensive broadband-enabled consoles, and the availability of mobile gaming have led to game developers and publishers heavily relying on premium in-game currencies, exclusive paid items, and loot boxes to subsidize or even replace profits from traditional video game business models. By 2020, in-game purchases made up a market of $92.6B worldwide and, in the US, experienced growth of over 30%.[1] In this highly lucrative market, the legal and ethical landscape is constantly bubbling with …
Social Media Platforms And Responsibility For Disinformation, Matt T. Figlia, Brandon M. Henschen, Joseph T. Sims, John-David Rusk
Social Media Platforms And Responsibility For Disinformation, Matt T. Figlia, Brandon M. Henschen, Joseph T. Sims, John-David Rusk
KSU Proceedings on Cybersecurity Education, Research and Practice
Researchers are paying closer attention to the rise of disinformation on social media platforms and what responsibility, if any, the companies that control these platforms have for false information being spread on their websites. In this paper, we highlight the recent growth in concern regarding online disinformation, discuss other works regarding the use of social media as a tool for spreading disinformation, and discuss how coordinated disinformation campaigns on social media platforms are used to spread propaganda and lies about current political events. We also evaluate the reactions of social media platforms in combatting disinformation and the difficulty in policing …
Using Experts For Improving Project Cybersecurity Risk Scenarios, Steven S. Presley, Jeffrey P. Landry, Jordan Shropshire, Philip Menard
Using Experts For Improving Project Cybersecurity Risk Scenarios, Steven S. Presley, Jeffrey P. Landry, Jordan Shropshire, Philip Menard
KSU Proceedings on Cybersecurity Education, Research and Practice
This study implemented an expert panel to assess the content validity of hypothetical scenarios to be used in a survey of cybersecurity risk across project meta-phases. Six out of 10 experts solicited completed the expert panel exercise. Results indicate that although experts often disagreed with each other and on the expected mapping of scenario to project meta-phase, the experts generally found risk present in the scenarios and across all three project meta-phases, as hypothesized.
Towards Assessing Organizational Cybersecurity Risks Via Remote Workers’ Cyberslacking And Their Computer Security Posture, Ariel Luna, Yair Levy, Gregory Simco, Wei Li
Towards Assessing Organizational Cybersecurity Risks Via Remote Workers’ Cyberslacking And Their Computer Security Posture, Ariel Luna, Yair Levy, Gregory Simco, Wei Li
KSU Proceedings on Cybersecurity Education, Research and Practice
Cyberslacking is conducted by employees who are using their companies’ equipment and network for personal purposes instead of performing their work duties during work hours. Cyberslacking has a significant adverse effect on overall employee productivity, however, recently, due to COVID19 pandemic move to remote working also pose a cybersecurity risk to organizations networks and infrastructure. In this work-in-progress research study, we are developing, validating, and will empirically test taxonomy to assess an organization’s remote workers’ risk level of cybersecurity threats. This study includes a three-phased developmental approach in developing the Remote Worker Cyberslacking Security Risk Taxonomy. With feedback from cybersecurity …
Nids In Airgapped Lans--Does It Matter?, Winston Messer
Nids In Airgapped Lans--Does It Matter?, Winston Messer
KSU Proceedings on Cybersecurity Education, Research and Practice
This paper presents an assessment of the methods and benefits of adding network intrusion detection systems (NIDS) to certain high-security airgapped isolated local area networks. The proposed network architecture was empirically tested via a series of simulated network attacks on a virtualized network. The results show an improvement of double the chances of an analyst receiving a specific, appropriately-severe alert when NIDS is implemented alongside host-based measures when compared to host-based measures alone. Further, the inclusion of NIDS increased the likelihood of the analyst receiving a high-severity alert in response to the simulated attack attempt by four times when compared …
What You See Is Not What You Know: Deepfake Image Manipulation, Cathryn Allen, Bryson Payne, Tamirat Abegaz, Chuck Robertson
What You See Is Not What You Know: Deepfake Image Manipulation, Cathryn Allen, Bryson Payne, Tamirat Abegaz, Chuck Robertson
KSU Proceedings on Cybersecurity Education, Research and Practice
Research indicates that deceitful videos tend to spread rapidly online and influence people’s opinions and ideas. Because of this, video misinformation via deepfake video manipulation poses a significant online threat. This study aims to discover what factors can influence viewers’ capability of distinguishing deepfake videos from genuine video footage. This work focuses on exploring deepfake videos’ potential use for deception and misinformation by exploring people’s ability to determine whether videos are deepfakes in a survey consisting of deepfake videos and original unedited videos. The participants viewed a set of four videos and were asked to judge whether the videos shown …
Editors' Preface, Michael E. Whitman, Herbert J. Mattord, Hossain Shahriar
Editors' Preface, Michael E. Whitman, Herbert J. Mattord, Hossain Shahriar
KSU Proceedings on Cybersecurity Education, Research and Practice
Since 2004, Kennesaw State University, Georgia, has hosted an academic conference. Over the years, the event has brought together hundreds of faculty and students from throughout the U.S., sharing research into pedagogical efforts and instructional innovations. Initially, the conference was named the Information Security Curriculum Development conference and served as KSU’s contribution to engage our colleagues in growing security education from its infancy. It was paired with KSU’s inaugural security education journal, the Information Security Education Journal. In 2016, the event was rebranded as the Conference on Cybersecurity Education, Research, and Practice to reflect both an expansion of topics suitable …