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A Metric to Assess Cyberattacks

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Advances in Human Factors in Cybersecurity (AHFE 2018)

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The field of cybersecurity has grown exponentially in the past few years with the level of cyberattacks and defenses that have had a major impact on government, industry, and personal behavior. However, analysis of such attacks has tended to be more qualitative than quantitative, undoubtedly because the latter is often extremely difficult. This paper will present a metric for the analysis of certain types of cyberattacks and present examples where it can be calculated with considerable precision.

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  1. Howard University, Washington, DC, 20059, USA

    Wayne Patterson

  2. University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon

    Michael Ekonde Sone

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  1. University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, USA

    Tareq Z. Ahram

  2. Soar Technology Inc., Orlando, Florida, USA

    Denise Nicholson

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Patterson, W., Sone, M.E. (2019). A Metric to Assess Cyberattacks. In: Ahram, T., Nicholson, D. (eds) Advances in Human Factors in Cybersecurity. AHFE 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 782. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94782-2_4

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