Faculty Publications

Arquilla, John

• Current Research Focus Areas
  • Cyber strategy and policy
• Recent Publications
  • John Arquilla, Bitskrieg:  The New Challenge of Cyberwarfare (Cambridge:  Polity, 2021)

Jasper, Scott

• Current Research Focus Areas
  • Cyber Policy
  • Russian Cyber Operations
• Recent Publications
  • Jasper, Scott, “How the Biden administration is making gains in an uphill battle against Russian hackers,” The Conversation, January 21, 2022.
  • Jasper, Scott and Hollingshead, Travis, “Mosaic Warfare Networks Can Serve Naval Expeditionary Forces,” Signal Magazine, January 1, 2022.
  • Jasper, Scott, "Biden Orders Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) Initiative,” United States Cybersecurity Magazine, Fall 2021.
  • Jasper, Scott, "Assessing Russia’s role and responsibility in the Colonial Pipeline attack,” New Atlanticist (blog for the Atlantic Council), June 1, 2021.

Rowe, Neil

• Current Research Focus Areas
  • Cyber deception
  • Industrial control systems security
  • Prediction of military candidate training success
  • Digital forensics
• Recent Publications
  • Washofsky, N. C. Rowe, and T. Nguyen, Using cloud honeypot platforms for gathering industrial-control-system attack intelligence.  Workshop on Industrial Control Systems Security, ACSAC, December 2021.
  • N. Rowe and A. Das, Predicting success in training of Navy aviators, Proc. International Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium, October 2021.
  • N. C. Rowe, T. D. Nguyen, J. T. Dougherty, M. C. Bieker, and D. Pilkington, Identifying anomalous industrial-control-system network flow activity using cloud honeypots.  Springer Lecture Notes, Proc. National Cyber Summit, Huntsville, Alabama, September 2021. 
  • G. Harter and N. C. Rowe, Testing detection of K-ary code obfuscated by metamorphic and polymorphic techniques.  Springer Lecture Notes, Proc. National Cyber Summit, Huntsville, Alabama, September 2021.

Stanica, Pante

• Current Research Focus Areas
  • Cryptography
• Recent Publications
  • Proc. 2nd International Conference on Security & Privacy (ICSP 2021) (P. Stanica, S. Mesnager, S. K. Debnath, eds.), 2021, Springer CCIS 1497:
  • Proc. 1st International Conference on Security & Privacy (ICSP 2020) (P. Stanica, S. Gangopadhyay, S. K. Debnath, eds.), 2021, Springer LNEE 744: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789813367807
  • A. Salagean, P. Stanica, Improving bounds on probabilistic affine tests to estimate the nonlinearity of Boolean functions, Cryptography & Communication – CCDS, 2022; https://doi.org/10.1007/s12095-021-00529-4
  • D. Bartoli, M. Calderini, C. Riera, P. Stanica, Low c-differential uniformity for functions modified on subfields, Cryptography & Communication – CCDS, 2022; https://doi.org/10.1007/s12095-022-00554-x.
  • L. Budaghyan, N. Kaleyski, C. Riera, P. Stanica, On the behavior of some APN permutations under swapping points, Cryptography & Communication – CCDS, 2021.
  • P. Stanica, C-differential uniformity for functions constructed via the Maiorana-McFarland bent function, Workshop on Coding & Cryptography, WCC 2022, Paper #37.
  • S. Maitra, C.S. Mukherjee, P. Stanica, D. Tang, On Boolean Functions with Low Polynomial Degree and Higher Order Sensitivity, Workshop on Coding & Cryptography, WCC 2022, Paper #3.
  • S. Ul Hasan, M. Pal, P. Stanica, C-differential uniformity and boomerang connectivity table of two classes of permutation polynomials, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 68:1 (2022), 679-691.
  • P. Stanica, A. Geary, C. Riera, A. Tkachenko, C-differential bent functions and perfect nonlinearity, Discrete Applied Mathematics 307 (2022), 160-171.

Thulasiraman, Preetha

• Current Research Focus Areas
  • Cyber analytics of energy infrastructure networks
  • Machine learning
  • 5G and energy networks
  • Secure data routing
• Recent Publications
  • P. Thulasiraman, Y.K. Denny Cheng, and B. Allen, “Evaluation of the Data Distribution Service for a Lossy Autonomous Hybrid System,” to appear in Proc. of IEEE International Systems Communications Conference (SYSCON) 2022, April 2022.
  • P. Thulasiraman, “Cyber Analytics for Intrusion Detection on the Navy Smart Grid Using Supervised Learning,” to appear in Proc. of IEEE of International Systems Communications Conference (SYSCON) 2022, April 2022.
  • V. Chan and P. Thulasiraman, “Use of K-Nearest Neighbors Machine Learning to Detect Cyber Threats on the Navy Smart Grid,” in Proc. of IEEE Military Communications (MilCom), December 2021.
  • J. Fernandez, B. Allen, P. Thulasiraman, and B. Bingham, “Performance Study of Robot Operating System 2 with QoS and Cybersecurity Settings,” in Proc. of IEEE International Systems Communications Conference (SYSCON) 2020, April 2020.
  • P. Thulasiraman, Z. Chen, B. Allen and B. Bingham, “Evaluation of the Robot Operating System 2 in Lossy Unmanned Networks,” in Proc. Of IEEE International Systems Communications Conference (SYSCON) 2020, April 2020.
  • P. Thulasiraman and S. Sandoval, “Cyber Security Assessment of the Robot Operating System 2 for Aerial Networks,” in Proc. Of IEEE International Systems Communications Conference (SYSCON) 2019, April 2019 (Best Student Paper-2nd Place).
  • P. Thulasiraman and Y. Wang, “A Lightweight Trust-Based Security Architecture for RPL in Mobile IoT Networks,” in Proc. Of IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC) 2019, January 2019