NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence
Centre of Excellence Tallinn, Estonia

Articles

The following page lists articles (co-)published by NATO CCD COE researchers.

2011

Alberghs, G.; Grigorenko, P.; Kivimaa, J. (2011). Quantitative system reliability approach for optimizing IT security costs in an AI environment. In: 12th Symposium on Programming Languages and Software Tools, SPLST'11 : Tallinn, Estonia, 5-7 October 2011, Proceedings: (Eds.) Penjam, Jaan. Tallinn: TUT Press, 2011, 219 - 230.

Czosseck, C.; Ottis, R.; Talihärm, A.-M. (2011). Estonia After the 2007 Cyber Attacks: Legal, Strategic and Organisational Changes in Cyber Security. Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Information Warfare and Security at the Tallinn University of Technology Tallinn, Estonia 7-8 July 2011, pp. 57-64. Reprinted in 2011 in the Journal of Cyber Warfare and Terrorism, Vol 1, Issue 1.

Czosseck, C. & Podins, K. (2011). An Usage-Centric Botnet Taxonomy. Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Information Warfare and Security at the Tallinn University of Technology Tallinn, Estonia 7-8 July 2011, pp. 65-72.

Ganuza, N.; Hernández, A.; Benavente, D. (2011). An Introductory Study to Cyber Security in NEC. NATO CCD COE Publications.

Geers, K. (2011). Heading off hackers. In per Concordiam, Vol 2, Issue 2, pp. 23-27.

Geers, K. (2011). Sun Tzu and Cyber War
NATO CCD COE Publications

Kivimaa, J. & Kirt, T. (2011). Evolutionary Algorithms for Optimal Selection of Security Measures. Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Information Warfare and Security at the Tallinn University of Technology Tallinn, Estonia 7-8 July 2011, pp. 172-184.

Kotkas, V.; Ojamaa, A.; Grigorenko, P.; Maigre, R.; Harf, M.; Tyugu, E. (2011). CoCoViLa as a multifunctional simulation platform. In: SIMUTOOLS 2011 - 4th International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques : March 21-25 - Barcelona, Spain Brussels: ICST, p. 1 - 8.

Lorents, P.; Matsak, E. (2011). Applying time-dependent algebraic systems for describing situations. Research paper presented at IEEE CogSIMA 2011.

Maigre, R.; Tyugu, E. (2011). Composition of Services on Hierarchical Service Models. In: EJC 2011 : 21st European-Japanese Conference on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases. [in print]

Ottis, R. (2011) Theoretical Offensive Cyber Militia Models. In: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Information Warfare and Security, Washington DC. Reading: Academic Publishing Limited, p 307-313.

Tikk, E. (2011). Ten Rules for Cyber SecurityIn: Survival. Global Politics and Strategy, vol. 53 no. 3, p. 119-132.

Vaarandi, R. (2011). Methods for Detecting Important Events and Knowledge from Data Security Logs. Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Information Warfare and Security at the Tallinn University of Technology Tallinn, Estonia 7-8 July 2011, pp. 261-267.

 

2010

Geers, K. (2010). A Brief Introduction to Cyber Warfare.
Common Defense Quarterly Spring (2010).

Geers, K. (2010). The Challenge of Cyber Attack Deterrence
Computer Law & Security Review, 26(3), 298-303

Geers, K. (2010). Cyber Weapons Convention
Computer Law & Security Review, 26(5), 547-551

Geers, K. (2010). Live Fire Exercise: Preparing for Cyber War
Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management: Vol. 7 : Iss. 1, Article 74.

Klein, G.; Ojamaa, A.; Grigorenko, P.; Jahnke, M.; Tyugu, E. (2010). Enhancing Response Selection in Impact Estimation Approaches.
Military Communications and Information Systems Conference (MCC), September 27-28, 2010, Wroclaw, Poland. , 2010, 7 p.

Lorents, P. & Matsak, E. (2010). Digital solutions for inference rules in decision-supporting systems
Fifth International Conference on Digital Information Management. Thundar Bay, Canada: IEEE, 2010.

Lorents, P. & Matsak, E. (2010). Forecasting and Deductive Systems
In: proceeding of The 30th Annual International Symposium on Forecasting: The 30th Annual International Symposium on Forecasting, San Diego, USA, June 20-23, 2010. San Diego, USA: The International Institute of Forecasters, 2010, 81 - 81.

Lorents, P. & Ottis, R. (2010). Knowledge Based Framework for Cyber Weapons and Conflict. In Czosseck, C. and Podins, K. (Eds.) Conference on Cyber Conflict. Proceedings 2010. Tallinn: CCD COE Publications, p 129-142.

Lorents, P. & Matsak, E. (2010). System mining inference rules from natural language texts
The 3rd International Multi-Conference on Engeneering and Technological Innovation. International Institute of Informatics and Systemics, 2010, 309 - 314.

Michael, J. B.;  Tikk, E.;  Wahlgren, P.;  Wingfield, T. C. (2010). From Chaos to Collective Defense
Computer, 43(12),  91 - 94.

Ottis, R. & Lorents, P. (2010). Cyberspace: Definition and Implications.
In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Information Warfare and Security, Dayton, OH, US, 8-9 April. Reading: Academic Publishing Limited, pp 267-270.

Ottis, R. (2010). From Pitch Forks to Laptops: Volunteers in Cyber Conflicts.
In Czosseck, C. and Podins, K. (Eds.) Conference on Cyber Conflict. Proceedings 2010. Tallinn: CCD COE Publications, p 97-109.

Ottis, R. (2010). Proactive Defence Tactics Against On-Line Cyber Militia. In Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Information Warfare and Security, Thessaloniki, Greece, 01-02 July. Reading: Academic Publishing Limited, p 233-237.

Tikk, E. (2010). Global Cyber Security – Thinking About The Niche for NATO
SAIS Review - Volume 30, Number 2, Summer-Fall 2010, pp. 105-119

Tikk, E. & Kaska, K. (2010). Legal Cooperation to Investigate Cyber Incidents: Estonian Case Study and Lessons
9th European Conference on Information Warfare and Security, Thessaloniki, Greece, 01-02 July. Reading: Academic Publishing Limited, p 288-294

E. Tyugu. (2010). Using knowledge in model-based software development.
In: A.Caplinskas, H. Pranevicius, T. Nakatani (eds.) Proc. of the Joint Conference on Knowledge-Based Software Engineering (JCKBSE'10).Technologija, Kaunas, 2010, p. 3 - 6.

Vaarandi, R. & Podins, K. (2010) Network IDS Alert Classification with Frequent Itemset Mining and Data Clustering. Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE Conference on Network and Service Management, pp.451-456.

 

2009

Geers, K. (2009). The Cyber Threat to National Critical Infrastructures: Beyond Theory
The Information Security Journal: A Global Perspective, 18(1) 1-7.

Kivimaa, J. (2009). Applying a Cost Optimizing Model for IT Security. In Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Information Warfare and Security, ECIW 2009, 6-7 July, Lisbon, Portugal. Reading: Academic Publishing Limited, pp 142-153.

Kivimaa, J.; Ojamaa, A.; Tyugu, E. (2009). Graded Security Expert System.
Proc. CRITIS08, Eds. R. Setola, S. Geretshuber. Berlin : Springer, 2009, 279-286. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science ; 5508).http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03552-4_25.

Kivimaa, J; Ojamaa, A.; Tyugu, E. (2009). Managing Evolving Security Situations.
MILCOM 2009: Unclassified Proceedings, October 18-21, 2009, Boston, MA. Piscataway, NJ: IEEE, 2009, p. 1 - 7.

Lorents, P.; Ottis, R.; Rikk, R. (2009). Cyber Society and Cooperative Cyber Defence. In Internationalization, Design and Global Development. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol 5623, pp. 180-186.

Lorents, P. (2009). Knowledge and Logic. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IC-AI’ 2009, 13-16 July, Las Vegas, USA, Vol 2, CSREA Press, pp 568-570.

Lorents, P. & Tyugu, E. (2009). Lattices of knowledge systems.
Proc. International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Proc. WORLDCOMP'09: IC-AIŽ2009, Las Vegas, CSREA Press, July 2009.

Maigre, R.; Küngas, P.; Matskin, M.; Tyugu, E. (2009). Dynamic Service Synthesis on a Large Service Model of a Federated Governmental Information System. International Journal on Advances in Intelligent Systems. Vol 2, No 2, pp 181-191.

Ottis, R. (2009). Theoretical Model for Creating a Nation-State Level Offensive Cyber Capability. In Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Information Warfare and Security, ECIW 2009, 6-7 July, Lisbon, Portugal. Reading: Academic Publishing Limited, pp 177-182.

Podins, K. (2009). Cellular Warfare. In Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Information Warfare and Security, ECIW 2009, 6-7 July, Lisbon, Portugal. Reading: Academic Publishing Limited, pp 192-197.

Tyugu, E. (2009). Computing and Computer Science in the Soviet Baltic Region. In J. Impagliazzo, T. Järvi, P. Paju (Eds.) History of Nordic Computing 2 -- Second IFIP WG 9.7 Conference, HiNC2, Revised Selected Papers. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, v. 303. Springer, pp 29-37.

Tikk, E. (2009). Defining Critical Information Infrastructure in the Context of Cyber Threats: The Privacy Perspective. Modelling Cyber Security: Approaches, Methodology, Strategies. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series, Vol 59. Amsterdam: IOS Press.

Vaarandi, R. (2009). Real-time Classification of IDS Alerts with Data Mining Techniques.
Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE MILCOM Conference , 2009, pp.1786-1792.

2008

Geers, K. (2008). "Cyberspace and the Changing Nature of Warfare". Hakin9 E-Book, 19/3 No. 6. SC Magazine.

Kivimaa, J.; Ojamaa, A.; Tyugu, E. (2008). "Pareto-Optimal Situation Analysis for Selection of Security Measures". Proc. MilCom 2008, 7 p.

Ottis, R. (2008). "Analysis of the 2007 Cyber Attacks against Estonia from the Information Warfare Perspective," in Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Information Warfare and Security, Plymouth, 2008. Reading: Academic Publishing Limited, pp 163-168.

Vaarandi, R. (2008). Mining Event Logs with SLCT and LogHound. Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium, 2008, pp.1071--1074.

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