Cyber-Security Threats, Actors, and Dynamic Mitigation
暫譯: 網路安全威脅、行為者與動態緩解

網路安全及其相關威脅不斷變化。本書旨在使用實用的當代機器學習技術來檢測日常威脅，例如惡意軟體以及對攻擊圖的動態風險分析，以確定系統的脆弱性以及所需的安全措施。

Nicholas Kolokotronis is an Associate Professor and head of the Cryptography and Security Group at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of the Peloponnese. He received his B.Sc. in mathematics from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1995, an M.Sc. in highly efficient algorithms (highest honors) in 1998 and a Ph.D. in cryptography in 2003, both from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Since 2004, he has held visiting positions at the University of Piraeus, University of the Peloponnese, the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, and the Open University of Cyprus. During 2002-04, he was with the European Dynamics S.A., Greece, as a security consultant. He has been a member of working groups for the provisioning of professional cyber-security training to large organizations, including the Hellenic Telecommunications and Posts Commission (EETT). He has published more than 85 papers in international scientific journals, conferences, and books and has participated in more than 20 EU-funded and national research and innovation projects. He has been a co-chair of conferences (IEEE CSR 2021), workshops (IEEE SecSoft 2019, IEEE CSRIoT 2019, 2020, and ACM EPESec 2020), and special sessions focusing on IoT security. Moreover, he has been a TPC member in many international conferences, incl. IEEE ISIT, IEEE GLOBECOM, IEEE ICC, ARES, and ISC.

He is currently a Guest Editor in "Engineering - cyber security, digital forensics and resilience" area of Springer's Applied Sciences Journal (since 2019) and in the Reviewer Board of MDPI's Cryptography journal (since 2020), whereas he has been an Associate Editor of the EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking (2009-17) and a regular reviewer for a number of prestigious journals, incl. IEEE TIFS, IEEE TIT, Springer's DCC, etc. His research interests span the broad areas of cryptography, security, and coding theory.

Stavros Shiaeles is an Assistant Professor in cyber-security at the University of Portsmouth, UK. He worked as an expert in cyber-security and digital forensics in the UK and EU, serving companies and research councils. His research interest span in the broad area of cyber-security and more specifically in OSINT, social engineering, distributed denial-of-service attacks, cloud security, digital forensics, network anomaly detection, and malware mitigation. Dr Shiaeles has authored more than 60 publications in academic journals and conferences, co-chaired many workshops and conferences and actively involved in research projects as Principal Investigator leading his cyber-security research team.

He is currently a Guest Editor in the topical collection "Cyber security, digital forensics and resilience" at Springer's Applied Sciences Journal (since 2019), Topic Editor at MDPI Forensic Sciences Journal (since 2020), Guest editor in the Special Issue "Advancements in Networking and Cyber Security" at MDPI Electronics Journal (2020), Guest editor in the "Special Issue on Novel Cyber-Security Paradigms for Software-defined and Virtualized Systems" at Elsevier Computer Networks Journal (2020), Active member at IEEE Technical Committee on Information Infrastructure and Networking (TCIIN) and a regular reviewer for several prestigious journals.

Further to his academic qualifications, he holds a series of professional certifications, namely EC-Council Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), EC-Council Advanced Penetration Testing (CAST611), ISACA Cobit 5 Foundation and a Cyberoam Certified Network and Security Professional (CCNSP), and he is EC-Council accredited instructor providing professional certifications training on cyber-security and penetration testing. He is also a Fellow of the BCS and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in the UK.

Before entering academia, Dr Shiaeles was in the industry, where he has more than ten years of experience, and he has worked on various aspects of IT and cyber-security, gaining invaluable hands-on knowledge on various systems and software developing.

Nicholas Kolokotronis 是希臘佩洛波尼索斯大學資訊與電信系的副教授及密碼學與安全小組的負責人。他於1995年在希臘塞薩洛尼基的亞里士多德大學獲得數學學士學位，1998年獲得高效演算法碩士學位（最高榮譽），並於2003年獲得雅典國立暨卡波迪斯特里亞大學的密碼學博士學位。

自2004年以來，他曾在比雷埃夫斯大學、佩洛波尼索斯大學、雅典國立暨卡波迪斯特里亞大學及塞浦路斯開放大學擔任訪問職位。在2002年至2004年間，他在希臘的歐洲動力公司（European Dynamics S.A.）擔任安全顧問。他曾參與為大型組織提供專業網路安全訓練的工作小組，包括希臘電信與郵政委員會（EETT）。他在國際科學期刊、會議和書籍上發表了超過85篇論文，並參與了超過20個歐盟資助及國家研究與創新項目。他曾擔任會議的共同主席（IEEE CSR 2021）、研討會（IEEE SecSoft 2019、IEEE CSRIoT 2019、2020及ACM EPESec 2020）及專題會議，專注於物聯網安全。此外，他還是多個國際會議的技術程序委員會成員，包括IEEE ISIT、IEEE GLOBECOM、IEEE ICC、ARES及ISC。

他目前是Springer的應用科學期刊中「工程 - 網路安全、數位取證與韌性」領域的客座編輯（自2019年起），以及MDPI的密碼學期刊的審稿委員（自2020年起），並曾擔任EURASIP無線通訊與網路期刊的副編輯（2009-2017）及多個知名期刊的常規審稿人，包括IEEE TIFS、IEEE TIT、Springer的DCC等。他的研究興趣涵蓋密碼學、安全性及編碼理論的廣泛領域。

Stavros Shiaeles 是英國朴茨茅斯大學的網路安全助理教授。他曾在英國和歐盟擔任網路安全和數位取證的專家，為公司和研究委員會提供服務。他的研究興趣涵蓋網路安全的廣泛領域，特別是在開源情報（OSINT）、社會工程、分散式拒絕服務攻擊、雲安全、數位取證、網路異常檢測及惡意軟體緩解等方面。Shiaeles博士在學術期刊和會議上發表了超過60篇論文，並共同主持了多個研討會和會議，積極參與研究項目，擔任主要研究者領導他的網路安全研究團隊。

他目前是Springer的應用科學期刊中「網路安全、數位取證與韌性」專題集的客座編輯（自2019年起），MDPI的法醫科學期刊的主題編輯（自2020年起），MDPI電子期刊的「網路與網路安全的進展」特刊的客座編輯（2020年），Elsevier計算機網路期刊的「針對軟體定義和虛擬化系統的新型網路安全範式」特刊的客座編輯（2020年），IEEE資訊基礎設施與網路技術委員會（TCIIN）的活躍成員，以及多個知名期刊的常規審稿人。

除了學術資格外，他還擁有一系列專業認證，包括EC-Council認證的道德駭客（CEH）、EC-Council進階滲透測試（CAST611）、ISACA Cobit 5基礎認證及Cyberoam認證的網路與安全專業人員（CCNSP），並且是EC-Council認可的講師，提供網路安全和滲透測試的專業認證訓練。他也是英國BCS的研究員及高等教育學院的研究員。

在進入學術界之前，Shiaeles博士曾在業界工作，擁有超過十年的經驗，並在IT和網路安全的各個方面工作，獲得了對各種系統和軟體開發的寶貴實務知識。