A global-local approach for estimating the internet's threat level

Journal of Communications and Networks

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 407-414

  Kollias, Spyridon ^a   Vlachos, Vasileios ^b   Papanikolaou, Alexandros ^b   Chatzimisios, Periklis ^c   Ilioudis, Christos ^c   Metaxiotis, Kostas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS   (Greece)

^b TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF LARISSA   (Greece)

^c ALEXANDER TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Computer virus; Forecasting; Intrusion detection; Security; Time series

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; DENIAL-OF-SERVICE ATTACK; FORECASTING; INTRUSION DETECTION; NETWORK SECURITY; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; OPEN SYSTEMS; SAMPLING; TIME SERIES;

DISTRIBUTED DENIAL OF SERVICE ATTACK; EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; INTRUSION DETECTION SYSTEMS; MALICIOUS ACTIVITIES; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; SECURITY; SECURITY APPLICATION; STATISTICAL SAMPLING;

COMPUTER VIRUSES;

EID: 84907188077     PISSN: 12292370     EISSN: 19765541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JCN.2014.000070     Document Type: Article

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