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Communication Techniques
Published in B K Bala, Energy Systems Modeling and Policy Analysis, 2022
Countermeasures are the detection of malicious attacks and protection measures against malicious attacks. These malicious attacks can be avoided using a series of countermeasures and include (Bîrleanu et al., 2019): Using redundancy techniques for attacks targeting availability.Authorizing users to come up with modifications for attacks targeting integrity countermeasures based on access control.Providing the exact privileges necessary to users to implement actions for attacks targeting confidentiality (principle of least privilege).
Managing Terrorism Threat/Vulnerability Assessments and Risk Analysis
Published in Michael L. Madigan, Handbook of Emergency Management Concepts, 2017
Countermeasures are actions that either eliminate the causes or reduce the effects of one or more vulnerabilities. Countermeasures could include additional checkpoints controlling access to a facility, security cameras, personnel background investigations, new procedures, or chemical protective gear. Countermeasures are identified and inserted into a scenario, and the risk rating for that scenario is recalculated to account for the effect of the countermeasure.
Bluetooth: State of the Art, Taxonomy, and Open Issues for Managing Security Services in Heterogeneous Networks
Published in N. Jeyanthi, Kun Ma, Thinagaran Perumal, R. Thandeeswaran, Managing Security Services in Heterogenous Networks, 2020
The countermeasures are classified into five generic categories as follows:Access Control & Authentication: Employ access control and authentication methods to prevent attacks aiming at the confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Access controls that can be used are user access controls (role-based access control, location-based access control, supervisory access control, reactive access control), access control of overprivileged applications, default-off access control, access control with delegation, data flow control. Authentications like continuous authentication mechanism work well.Intrusion Detection and Mitigation: Use the right intrusion detection systems (IDSs) to detect malicious behavior, and possibly mitigate the attacks targeting confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The use of intrusion detection and mitigation can be based on detecting side-channel attacks, detecting the execution of malicious processes, detecting routing attacks, detecting event spoofing attacks, detecting voice-command injection attacks, detecting attacks via encrypted traffic analysis, and detecting hidden inter-application interactions.Security Protocols and Frameworks: Utilize the verified and validated appropriate proposed security protocols and frameworks in order to address the unique challenges of securing the environments.Software Reliability: The software reliability is ensured through code verification, automatic updates, software testing through fuzzing and rapid patching, reliable patching, and update mechanisms.Identification and Management: Identify and troubleshoot mismanaged or misconfigured Bluetooth and paired devices by using proper identification and management techniques like identification through traffic analysis, secure logging, management of compromised devices, and traffic shaping to prevent unauthorized identification.
Effects of Security Knowledge, Self-Control, and Countermeasures on Cybersecurity Behaviors
Published in Journal of Computer Information Systems, 2023
Countermeasure refers to an action or procedure taken against an unwanted action or situation. The Internet Security Glossary of IETF RFC36 describes countermeasure as ”an action, device, procedure, or technique that reduces a threat, a vulnerability, or an attack by eliminating or preventing it, by minimizing the harm it can cause, or by discovering and reporting it so that corrective action can be taken.” Following guidelines provided in Straub and Welke,11 D’Arcy et al.23 used the term ”security countermeasures” to describe security-related mechanisms adopted to mitigate threats and vulnerabilities arising from workers’ usage of IS resources, including the Internet. Hovav and D’Arcy12 further delineated security countermeasures as procedural and technical countermeasures with SETA programs as an example of the former and computer monitoring as an example of the latter.
Exploration and Exploitation in Organizational Cybersecurity
Published in Journal of Computer Information Systems, 2022
Cybersecurity response describes the ways in which an organization deals with cybersecurity threats. It includes actions for monitoring threats, implementing countermeasures for preventing and detecting threats, and recovering from breaches.6,15 The responses may include IT and non-IT related countermeasures to deal with the technical infrastructure (e.g., software, hardware, data, and network) as well as the non-technical infrastructure (i.e., physical facilities, personnel, and regulation).8,9,16 Organizations may invest in preventive controls and safeguards to prevent or reduce the likelihood of cybersecurity attacks as well as safeguards to detect and contain cybersecurity attacks and reduce net losses.5,17 Firewalls, software encryption, and virus detection are other countermeasures pursued by organizations to prevent breaches.18,19 Investments in computer security, incident response teams, and cyber-insurance products could be other avenues for organizations.20,21