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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"Defense Strategies"”.
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Cross-reactivity among alphaviruses provides insight into viral emergence and novel defense strategies
… quality of life around the globe within a single defense strategy.
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Territorial Defense Strategies in the Northern Cardinal (<i>Cardinalis cardinalis</i>): Who is the Bigger Threat?
<p>This thesis examines the use of defensive strategies in relation to territories year round in the northern cardinal (<em>Cardinalis cardinalis</em>). Responses to recorded neighbor song and stranger song playback from the middle of a focal male’s territory were measured. This allowed for an …
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Security of Cyber-Physical Systems with Human Actors: Theoretical Foundations, Game Theory, and Bounded Rationality
… a CPS and the effectiveness of any implemented defense mechanism, 2) Analyzing the multi-agent interactions -- among humans and automated systems -- that occur within CPSs and which have direct effects on the security state of the system, and 3) Recognizing the role that humans and their …
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PERIMETER DEFENSE WITH MULTI-ROBOT SYSTEMS
Perimeter defense is a key challenge in many real-world scenarios such as airport security, convoy protection, and self-driving cars. To successfully achieve perimeter defense, a defender must solve several fundamental problems such as target tracking, resource allocation, and pursuit evasion. It …
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Safety with strangers : a preventive program for deaf children
… the same information, coping s kills, and defense strategies as their hearing counterparts. The "Safety with Strangers slide series was presented in classrooms of hearing impaired students at both the middle school level and elementary school level. Program trainers gave students …
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Evaluation of Optimized Architected Reef Design in Random Oscillatory Motion for Maximized Wave Energy Dissipation and Coastal Preservation
… examination and enhancement of existing coastal defense strategies. Severe threats to ecosystems, communities, and infrastructure from climate change, including rising sea levels and intensified weather events, necessitate the development of new technologies for protection and damage prevention. …
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Acoustically mediated risk assessment of eastern tent caterpillars (Malacosoma americanum)
Research on acoustic defense strategies of caterpillars is lacking. Most known lepidopteran larvae have limited vision and live on a substrate during their larval span. Thus, sounds and/or vibrations of predators could have important roles in risk assessment. This thesis investigated acoustically …
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Peer-to-peer network modeling for adversarial proactive cyber defenses
… in order to model adversarial attack and defense dynamics in networks. Modeling this behavior is desirable as it allows for network designers to better develop network defense strategies against adaptive cyber attackers. By developing a network simulator that implements a peer-to-peer …
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Investigating coevolutionary algorithms for finding Nash equilibria in cybersecurity problems
… continuously change and adapt, stationary defense strategies do not effectively secure networks against attacks. We modeled attacker-defender interactions using competitive coevolutionary algorithms and investigated Nash equilibria within these cybersecurity problems. In particular, we …
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Building Insurance
… responsibility, and stewardship? While wildfire defense strategies put forth by insurance companies and building code armor stick-frame American single family home and its aesthetic traditions, this thesis proposes a new building typology entirely: a neighborly cooperative of adjoined homes. …
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Defending Real-Time Systems through Timing-Aware Designs
… This dissertation discusses three different defense techniques that focuses on the role that real-time scheduling theory can play to reduce runtime cost, and guarantee correctness when applying these defense strategies to real-time systems. The first work introduces a novel timing aware …
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InjectBench: An Indirect Prompt Injection Benchmarking Framework
… evaluate indirect prompt injection attacks and defenses at scale, limiting progress in this area. To address this gap, we introduce InjectBench, a framework that empowers the community to create and evaluate custom indirect prompt injection attack samples. Our study demonstrate that InjectBench …
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On the Security of Speech-based Machine Translation Systems: Vulnerabilities and Attacks
… the ur- gent need for developing more resilient defense strategies. We also discuss open research challenges and propose directions for building secure, trustworthy, and ethically responsible speech translation technologies. Ultimately, this work contributes to a deeper understand- ing of …
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Security threats to Android apps
… channel. To mitigate these threats, we propose defense strategies for both widespread threats on mHealth apps and the side-channel information leaks on Android devices.
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Securing Multi-Layer Federated Learning: Detecting and Mitigating Adversarial Attacks
… layers, the structural differences warrant new strategies to handle adversaries. While existing works primarily address attack prevention and mitigation in conventional two-layer FL systems, research on attack prevention and mitigation in multi-layer federated learning systems remains limited. …
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Evolving Threats and Defenses in Machine Learning: Focus on Model Inversion and Beyond
… leveraging knowledge-enriched distributional strategies under white-box conditions, effectively reconstructing private training data from image classifiers. To counteract such threats, we develop a novel data-centric defense approach, strategically utilizing augmentation techniques to reshape …
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Quantifying the Impact of Defensive Cybersecurity Effort Against Advanced Persistent Threats For Industrial Control Systems
… response is crucial. Current cybersecurity defense strategies have limited scope of an attack's impact until an actual attack occurs. Utilizing elements of game theory, this project explores strategic defense tactics for countering cybersecurity threats within Industrial Control Systems …
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Trust-Centric Reactive Defenses Against Evasive Cyber Threats in Industrial Networks
… Systems (ML-IDS). Traditional IDS and ML-based defenses struggle to detect stealth attacks, adversarial perturbations, and covert cyber-physical exploits, as attackers manipulate network traffic features to evade detection. This dissertation first demonstrates these vulnerabilities by developing …
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The Dialectics of Cyberspace: Communication Ethics as First Response to Cyber Attacks
… recognize the ineffectiveness of perimeter defense strategies, or the raising of defensive walls to protect sensitive information as the primary response to cyber attacks (Denning, 2001; Jang-Jaccard & Nepal, 2014; MacKinnon, Bacon, Gan, Loukas, Chadwick, Frangiskatos, 2013). Thus, this …
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Linking plant traits and herbivory in grassland biodiversity-ecosystem functioning research
… This framework links plant growth and defense strategies, herbivore feeding preferences, and primary production in terrestrial plant communities. I empirically tested these proposed linkages in laboratory and field experiments carried out in the understudied grasslands of Inner …
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