Cybersecurity is the practice of protecting computer systems, networks, and data from unauthorized access, disruption, or damage. It spans multiple layers of defense, including network security such as firewalls and VPNs, application security such as secure coding and vulnerability testing, endpoint protection, identity and access management, and cryptography for confidentiality and integrity. Common threat categories include malware, phishing, denial-of-service attacks, SQL injection, and increasingly sophisticated ransomware campaigns; a 2026 industry threat report recorded more than 7,500 ransomware disclosures for the year, continuing a four-year upward trend. Modern cybersecurity research draws heavily on machine learning for anomaly-based threat detection, behavioral analysis, and automated incident response, alongside traditional signature-based and rule-based defenses. Other active research areas include securing cloud infrastructure, IoT device security, blockchain-based authentication schemes, and privacy-preserving techniques such as differential privacy. As an open-access cybersecurity journal, IJACSA publishes peer-reviewed work on threat detection models, security architectures, cryptographic protocols, and vulnerability assessment methods.
Published in International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications (IJACSA)
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In the new era of technology, where information can be accessed and gained at the push of a button, security concerns are raised about protecting the system and data privacy and confidentiality. Traditional ways of user…
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As the digital economy flourishes, the use of blockchain technology for data trading has seen a surge in popularity. Yet, previous approaches have frequently faltered in harmonizing security with user experience, culmina…
A membership inference attack (MIA) on machine learning models aims to determine the sensitive data that has been used to train machine learning models. Machine learning-based applications (MLaaS—machine learning as a se…
As cyber threats continue to evolve in complexity, the need for robust intrusion detection systems (IDS) becomes increasingly critical. Machine learning (ML) models have demon-strated their effectiveness in detecting ano…
Single Sign-On (SSO) systems have gained popularity for simplifying the login process, enabling users to authenticate through a single identity provider (IDP). However, their widespread adoption raises concerns regarding…
To facilitate smooth human-computer interaction (HCI) in a variety of contexts, from augmented reality to sign language translation, real-time gesture detection is essential. In this paper, researchers leverage federated…
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There has been a continual rise in the quantity of smart and autonomous automobiles in recent decades. the effectiveness of communication among vehicles in Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANET) is critical for ensuring the s…
Synthetic data generation research has been progressing at a rapid pace and novel methods are being designed every now and then. Earlier, statistical methods were used to learn the distributions of real data and then sam…