International Journal of Information Security

Papers
(The median citation count of International Journal of Information Security is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
BitCracker: BitLocker meets GPUs125
The rise of “security and privacy”: bibliometric analysis of computer privacy research106
Fast but approximate homomorphic k-means based on masking technique76
Verifiability for privacy-preserving computing on distributed data — a survey50
AutoPKI: public key infrastructure for IoT with automated trust transfer49
Anomalous behavior detection-based approach for authenticating smart home system users46
Outlier-oriented poisoning attack: a grey-box approach to disturb decision boundaries by perturbing outliers in multiclass learning40
Efficient arabic and english social spam detection using a transformer and 2D convolutional neural network-based deep learning filter39
A content-based deep intrusion detection system33
Feature engineering impact on position falsification attacks detection in vehicular ad-hoc network32
Systematic review of SIEM technology: SIEM-SC birth30
An intrusion detection approach based on incremental long short-term memory29
Using machine learning to detect network intrusions in industrial control systems: a survey29
Malware classification approaches utilizing binary and text encoding of permissions27
A comprehensive approach for mitigating impersonation in online assessment: integrity policy and random authentication25
Fairness as a Service (FaaS): verifiable and privacy-preserving fairness auditing of machine learning systems24
Weighted quality criteria for cyber threat intelligence: assessment and prioritisation in the MISP data model23
Automated broken object-level authorization attack detection in REST APIs through OpenAPI to colored petri nets transformation23
BLoCNet: a hybrid, dataset-independent intrusion detection system using deep learning23
Balancing usability, user experience, security and privacy in XR systems: a multidimensional approach23
Xai-driven black-box adversarial attacks on network intrusion detectors22
Random resampling algorithms for addressing the imbalanced dataset classes in insider threat detection22
Acnn: arbitrary trace attacks based on leakage area detection20
Restricting data-leakage using fine-grained access control on OSN objects20
A vulnerability assessment and exploitation analysis of a powerline communication HomePlug AV network adapter20
MEDICALHARM: A threat modeling designed for modern medical devices and a comprehensive study on effectiveness, user satisfaction, and security perspectives20
Survey on image encryption techniques using chaotic maps in spatial, transform and spatiotemporal domains20
Detection, characterization, and profiling DoH Malicious traffic using statistical pattern recognition20
Unmasking the common traits: an ensemble approach for effective malware detection20
Enhancing phishing email detection with stylometric features and classifier stacking19
Model-Agnostic Utility-Preserving Biometric Information Anonymization19
Pseudonym shuffling-driven blockchain and Autoencoder-based secure E-healthcare data management19
Improving spam email classification accuracy using ensemble techniques: a stacking approach18
Ensemble learning-based adaptive and adversarial techniques for APT attack detection18
Adversarial robustness of deep reinforcement learning-based intrusion detection17
A survey of anomaly detection methods for power grids17
A cyber defense system against phishing attacks with deep learning game theory and LSTM-CNN with African vulture optimization algorithm (AVOA)17
Phish-Sight: a new approach for phishing detection using dominant colors on web pages and machine learning17
Tracing the evolution of cyber resilience: a historical and conceptual review17
“Animation” URL in NFT marketplaces considered harmful for privacy17
A perspective–retrospective analysis of diversity in signature-based open-source network intrusion detection systems17
Attribute inference privacy protection for pre-trained models16
A systematic literature review on wearable health data publishing under differential privacy16
Certified unlearning for a trustworthy machine learning-based access control administration16
Developers’ mindset on self-adaptive privacy and its requirements for cloud computing environments16
Privacy information propagation in online social networks - a case study based on Weibo data16
Unmasking SDN flow table saturation: fingerprinting, attacks and defenses16
Semi-supervised approach for detecting malicious domains in TLDs in their first query16
Secure outsourcing of manufacturing compliance checks15
Analyzing shared keys in X.509 certificates with domain ownership15
Blockchain-based data integrity framework for Internet of Things15
Generating adversarial examples with collaborative generative models15
Construction of network pentest-defense adversarial environment based on NASim15
GaTeBaSep: game theory-based security protocol against ARP spoofing attacks in software-defined networks15
Business process models and simulation to enable GDPR compliance15
Deceiving supervised machine learning models via adversarial data poisoning attacks: a case study with USB keyboards14
Advancements and challenges in privacy-preserving split learning: experimental findings and future directions14
Automated cybersecurity impact propagation across business processes using process mining techniques14
A systematic mapping study on security for systems of systems14
Authentication in Internet of Things, protocols, attacks, and open issues: a systematic literature review14
Securing air-gapped systems-review of covert techniques for data ex-filtration and a new clause proposal for ISO 2700114
Efficient authentication scheme for heterogeneous signcryption with cryptographic reverse firewalls for VANETs14
Generative AI for pentesting: the good, the bad, the ugly13
Exploring the potential of deep learning and machine learning techniques for randomness analysis to enhance security on IoT13
Cross-Silo Federated Learning in Security Operations Centers for effective malware detection13
Spatial de-correlation of generated keys from wireless channels using adversarial deep learning13
RLET: a lightweight model for ubiquitous multi-class intrusion detection in sustainable and secured smart environment13
WEFT: a consistent and tamper-proof methodology for acquisition of automatically verifiable forensic web evidence13
Malicious uses of blockchains by malware: from the analysis to Smart-Zephyrus12
Estimating vulnerability metrics with word embedding and multiclass classification methods12
A generic framework for blockchain-assisted on-chain auditing for off-chain storage12
Security beyond cybersecurity: side-channel attacks against non-cyber systems and their countermeasures12
International journal of information security: a bibliometric study, 2007–202312
Cyber-security gamification in federation of cyber ranges: design, implementation, and evaluation12
Adversarial attack detection framework based on optimized weighted conditional stepwise adversarial network12
Multi-user covert communication in power internet of things networks12
Adversarial attacks against mouse- and keyboard-based biometric authentication: black-box versus domain-specific techniques12
DevSecOps practices and tools12
Multi-cloud applications: data and code fragmentation for improved security12
Toward a unified and secure approach for extraction of forensic digital evidence from an IoT device12
A first look at references from the dark to the surface web world: a case study in Tor11
Two-stage advanced persistent threat (APT) attack on an IEC 61850 power grid substation11
A Data-centric approach for safe and secure large language models against threatening and toxic content11
Identifying factors influencing the duration of zero-day vulnerabilities11
Trust attack prevention based on Spark-blockchain in social IoT: a survey11
Comprehensive review on machine learning and deep learning techniques for malware detection in android and IoT devices11
ANS-based compression and encryption with 128-bit security11
A systematic overview on methods to protect sensitive data provided for various analyses10
Novel mechanism for anonymous reporting and anonymous rewarding using blockchain technology10
A conflict-aware active BLE state machine learning and state coverage-guided gray-box fuzz testing method10
Generating ICS vulnerability playbooks with open standards10
An overview of proposals towards the privacy-preserving publication of trajectory data10
A comprehensive Blockchain-oriented secure framework for SDN/Fog-based IoUT10
Protection of centralized SDN control plane from high-rate Packet-In messages10
A comprehensive analysis of cryptocurrency breaches at endpoint10
A fog-based anonymous authentication scheme with location privacy for wireless body area network with FPGA implementation10
Abuse-freeness in contract signing: a blockchain-based proposal10
Anonymous provision of privacy-sensitive services using blockchain and decentralised storage10
Cyber–physical risk assessment for false data injection attacks considering moving target defences9
Revisiting QUIC attacks: a comprehensive review on QUIC security and a hands-on study9
TENET: a new hybrid network architecture for adversarial defense9
PayScan: Detection and Security Analysis of Payment Libraries in Android Apps9
Deep behavioral analysis of machine learning algorithms against data poisoning9
Analysis of OSPU security effect and data assembly verification under semi-network OS architecture9
Non-Alpha-Num: a novel architecture for generating adversarial examples for bypassing NLP-based clickbait detection mechanisms9
Challenges of post-quantum digital signing in real-world applications: a survey9
Retraction Note: Deep learning based network intrusion detection system: a systematic literature review and future scopes9
Correction: Cryptocurrency recovery framework using pre-signed transaction9
A unit-based symbolic execution method for detecting memory corruption vulnerabilities in executable codes9
Selfish mining attack in blockchain: a systematic literature review9
Factors influencing Swedish citizens’ willingness to provide their mobile phones to forensic examination9
Performance analysis of capsule networks for detecting GPS spoofing attacks on unmanned aerial vehicles9
A deep learning approach based on multi-view consensus for SQL injection detection8
Identifying Open-Source Threat Detection Resources on GitHub: A Scalable Machine Learning Approach8
Pioneering automated vulnerability detection for smart contracts in blockchain using KEVM: Guardian ADRGAN8
Maritime decision-makers and cyber security: deck officers’ perception of cyber risks towards IT and OT systems8
Balancing the act? Resampling versus imbalanced data for Wi-Fi IDS8
Federated learning for misbehaviour detection with variational autoencoders and Gaussian mixture models8
Scalable, password-based and threshold authentication for smart homes8
SCAnME - scanner comparative analysis and metrics for evaluation8
Detecting malicious nodes using game theory and reinforcement learning in software-defined networks8
A computationally efficient dimensionality reduction and attack classification approach for network intrusion detection8
Large language models for software vulnerability detection: a guide for researchers on models, methods, techniques, datasets, and metrics8
Securing the IoT ecosystem: ASIC-based hardware realization of Ascon lightweight cipher8
Email bombing attack detection and mitigation using machine learning8
Enhancing DevSecOps practice with Large Language Models and Security Chaos Engineering8
Efficient and interpretable SRU combined with TabNet for network intrusion detection in the big data environment8
Federated learning-based intrusion detection system for Internet of Things7
A personalized learning theory-based cyber-security training exercise7
Vulnerability discovery based on source code patch commit mining: a systematic literature review7
CARNYX: A framework for vulnerability detection via power consumption analysis in embedded systems7
Short- versus long-term performance of detection models for obfuscated MSOffice-embedded malware7
SmartiPhish: a reinforcement learning-based intelligent anti-phishing solution to detect spoofed website attacks7
DFTMicroagg: a dual-level anonymization algorithm for smart grid data7
A comprehensive survey of phishing: mediums, intended targets, attack and defence techniques and a novel taxonomy6
Aldp-fl: an adaptive local differential privacy-based federated learning mechanism for IoT6
A risk-level assessment system based on the STRIDE/DREAD model for digital data marketplaces6
Citizens’ engagement with cybersecurity measures in Bangladesh: a cross-sectional study6
P2ADF: a privacy-preserving attack detection framework in fog-IoT environment6
Efficient searchable symmetric encryption supporting range queries6
An end-to-end intrusion detection system with IoT dataset using deep learning with unsupervised feature extraction6
Security analysis and improvement of a privacy-preserving authentication scheme in VANET6
IoT device security audit tools: a comprehensive analysis and a layered architecture approach for addressing expanded security requirements6
Investigation of application layer DDoS attacks in legacy and software-defined networks: A comprehensive review6
An interpretability security framework for intelligent decision support systems based on saliency map6
How engaged are you? A forensic analysis of the Oura Ring Gen 3 application across iOS, Android, and Cloud platforms6
A review on digital twins for power generation and distribution6
Transformer or Autoencoder? Who is the ultimate adversary for attack detectors?6
Start thinking in graphs: using graphs to address critical attack paths in a Microsoft cloud tenant6
From sinking to saving: MITRE ATT &CK and D3FEND frameworks for maritime cybersecurity6
Mobile botnet detection: a comprehensive survey6
Integrating the edge computing paradigm into the development of IoT forensic methodologies6
A dynamic C-V2X anonymous authentication and group key agreement protocol5
Intelligent cybersecurity approach for data protection in cloud computing based Internet of Things5
Evaluating the impact of filter-based feature selection in intrusion detection systems5
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Deep learning based network intrusion detection system: a systematic literature review and future scopes5
Evaluating differentially private decision tree model over model inversion attack5
A Webshell detection method based on feature fusion and federated learning5
Blockchain-based multi-organizational cyber risk management framework for collaborative environments5
Construction of post quantum secure authenticated key agreement protocol for dew-assisted IoT systems5
A comprehensive review on permissions-based Android malware detection5
Adversarial security mitigations of mmWave beamforming prediction models using defensive distillation and adversarial retraining5
On the detection of lateral movement through supervised machine learning and an open-source tool to create turnkey datasets from Sysmon logs5
A blockchain-enabled collaborative intrusion detection framework for SDN-assisted cyber-physical systems5
Modeling reporting delays in cyber incidents: an industry-level comparison5
From zero-shot machine learning to zero-day attack detection5
Educational escape rooms for raising information privacy competences: An empirical validation5
A novel hybrid hunger games algorithm for intrusion detection systems based on nonlinear regression modeling5
Robust password security: a genetic programming approach with imbalanced dataset handling5
A review of time-series analysis for cyber security analytics: from intrusion detection to attack prediction5
Detecting unknown vulnerabilities in smart contracts with the CNN-BiLSTM model5
Hybrid attention-enhanced explainable model for encrypted traffic detection and classification5
Insights from field experience: digital forensics of event and voyage data recorders in transportation systems accident investigation5
Blockchain and smart contract architecture for notaries services under civil law: a Brazilian experience5
Accessible password strength assessment method for visually challenged users5
A cluster of patterns for trusted computing5
Neighbor discovery protocol anomaly-based detection system using neural network algorithm4
SealFSv2: combining storage-based and ratcheting for tamper-evident logging4
A multi-objective cost–benefit optimization algorithm for network hardening4
GPNST: An Improved Graphical Password Authentication Scheme Leveraging Neural Style Transfer Technique on Smartphones4
A survey and characterization of Close Access Cyberspace Operations4
Establishing and validating secured keys for IoT devices: using P3 connection model on a cloud-based architecture4
Dependency-based security risk assessment for cyber-physical systems4
Error reduction of SRAM-based physically unclonable function for chip authentication4
Blockchain-based multi-diagnosis deep learning application for various diseases classification4
A review on fake news detection 3T’s: typology, time of detection, taxonomies4
Adaptive context-aware access control for IoT environments leveraging fog computing4
Highly private blockchain-based management system for digital COVID-19 certificates4
Challenges and future research directions in secure multi-party computation for resource-constrained devices and large-scale computations4
Guiding the implementation of data privacy with microservices4
Privacy and safety improvement of VANET data via a safety-related privacy scheme4
Business-layer client-side racer: dynamic security testing of the web application against client-side race condition in the business layer4
Energy-efficient trust-aware secured neuro-fuzzy clustering with sparrow search optimization in wireless sensor network4
From frontlines to online: examining target preferences in the Russia–Ukraine conflict4
BASPED: Blockchain assisted searchable public key encryption over outsourced data4
Publisher Correction: PPAM-mIoMT: a privacy-preserving authentication with device verification for securing healthcare systems in 5G networks4
Cultivating skilled malware analysts: Clarification of practical malware dynamic analysis through interviews4
A TCP-based covert channel with integrity check and retransmission4
Activity-based payments: alternative (anonymous) online payment model4
Evading malware classifiers using RL agent with action-mask4
Clonable key fobs: Analyzing and breaking RKE protocols4
A typology of secure multicast communication over 5 G/6 G networks4
A novel frame switching model based on virtual MAC in SDN4
USB-GATE: USB-based GAN-augmented transformer reinforced defense framework for adversarial keystroke injection attacks4
Cyber defense in OCPP for EV charging security risks4
Side-channel attacks and countermeasures for heart rate retrieval from ECG characterization device4
Human factors in cybersecurity: an interdisciplinary review and framework proposal4
Beyond the code: analyzing OSS developers security awareness and practices3
Causal effect analysis-based intrusion detection system for IoT applications3
Detection of adversarial attacks based on differences in image entropy3
A formal technique for automatic resolution of OpenFlow anomalies3
AIHGAT: A novel method of malware detection and homology analysis using assembly instruction heterogeneous graph3
Revisiting Cuckoo Hash-based Unbalanced Private Set Union: Leakage Analysis and Better Construction3
LDES: detector design for version number attack detection using linear temporal logic based on discrete event system3
INCHAIN: a cyber insurance architecture with smart contracts and self-sovereign identity on top of blockchain3
An online intrusion detection method for industrial control systems based on extended belief rule base3
A full privacy-preserving distributed batch-based certificate-less aggregate signature authentication scheme for healthcare wearable wireless medical sensor networks (HWMSNs)3
A review on graph-based approaches for network security monitoring and botnet detection3
Optimized common features selection and deep-autoencoder (OCFSDA) for lightweight intrusion detection in Internet of things3
SERDUX-MARCIM: Maritime Cyberattack simulation using Dynamic Modeling, Compartmental Models in Epidemiology and Agent-based Modeling3
A cross-setting study of user unlocking behaviour in a graphical authentication scheme: a case study on android Pattern Unlock3
Distributed access control for information-centric networking architectures using verifiable credentials3
BLISS: blockchain-based integrated security system for internet of things (IoT) applications3
A Digital Asset Inheritance Model to Convey Online Persona Posthumously3
Octopus: privacy preserving peer-to-peer transactions system with InterPlanetary file system (IPFS)3
Synthetic data: revisiting the privacy-utility trade-off3
Secure multi-party computation with legally-enforceable fairness3
Accountable privacy preserving attribute-based access control for cloud services enforced using blockchain3
Security bug reports classification using fasttext3
A survey on malware attacks in industrial air-gap systems3
Benchmarking the security protocol and data model (SPDM) for component authentication3
Cybersecurity training and healthcare: the AERAS approach3
Data space randomization for securing cyber-physical systems3
Malicious code detection in android: the role of sequence characteristics and disassembling methods3
Random forest evaluation using multi-key homomorphic encryption and lookup tables3
A survey on IoT application layer protocols, security challenges, and the role of explainable AI in IoT (XAIoT)3
Brave-sdn: blockchain-reliant authentication for versatile east–west bound in distributed SDNs3
CT-GCN: a phishing identification model for blockchain cryptocurrency transactions2
C2-Eye: framework for detecting command and control (C2) connection of supply chain attacks2
Enhancing security in QCA-based circuits using optimal key gate placement2
A voting gray wolf optimizer-based ensemble learning models for intrusion detection in the Internet of Things2
Integrating AI-driven threat intelligence and forecasting in the cyber security exercise content generation lifecycle2
Securing financial systems through data sovereignty: a systematic review of approaches and regulations2
Cryptocurrency recovery framework using pre-signed transaction2
SFCGDroid: android malware detection based on sensitive function call graph2
XAIRF-WFP: a novel XAI-based random forest classifier for advanced email spam detection2
How education level influences internet security knowledge, behaviour, and attitude: a comparison among undergraduates, postgraduates and working graduates2
Expediting the design and development of secure cloud-based mobile apps2
The SAINT observatory subsystem: an open-source intelligence tool for uncovering cybersecurity threats2
A comprehensive analysis on software vulnerability detection datasets: trends, challenges, and road ahead2
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