Cyberpatterns are predictable regularities in cyberspace helping us to design and implement more effective and secure systems, and to detect and respond to breaches, failures and deficiencies in operational systems. Cyberpatterns is in its infancy and there are many challenges including:Developing a scientific foundation of pattern-oriented research methodsDeveloping better engineering practice in novel application domains such as for cloud and cyberphysical systemsConstructing a sharable knowledge-base to aid education of students, design of novel systems and the development of automated design toolsInnovative applications of design patterns to pattern recognition and big dataHighlights:Presents the state-of-the-art in the novel field of cyberpatterns Demonstrates the application of patterns to cyber security and other key cyberspace domainsSupports the development of a sound scientific, engineering and mathematical foundation for cyberspaceThis important new book provides an introduction to and coverage of the state-of-the-art of cyberpatterns, from a theoretical standpoint and via practical applications, bringing together different interdisciplinary areas under one roof to portray a holistic view of the underlying principles and mechanisms of cyberpatterns.Clive Blackwell is an Associate Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University specialising in cyber security and digital forensicsHong Zhu is a Professor at Oxford Brookes University where he is Head of the Applied Formal Methods Research Group. He has a longstanding interest in design patterns and is the author of ‘Software design methodology: from principles to architectural styles’
Cyberspace in increasingly important to people in their everyday lives for purchasing goods on the Internet, to energy supply increasingly managed remotely using Internet protocols. Unfortunately, this dependence makes us susceptible to attacks from nation states, terrorists, criminals and hactivists. Therefore, we need a better understanding of cyberspace, for which patterns, which are predictable regularities, may help to detect, understand and respond to incidents better. The inspiration for the workshop came from the existing work on formalising design patterns applied to cybersecurity, but we also need to understand the many other types of patterns that arise in cyberspace.
Includes extended and updated papers from the First International Workshop on Cyberpatterns Provides a broad introduction to this novel and fast-moving field Contains both a research agenda and practical applications for cyberpatterns Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Clive Blackwell
Aspect Oriented Programming Attack and Defense Patterns Complex Event Processing Composition Patterns of Hacking Cyber Situational Awareness Design Patterns Design Space Enterprise Security Systems Formal Methods Memory Corruption Network Resilience and Multi-level Resilience Network Security Pattern Representation Policy Configuration Secure Component Composition / Secure Service Composition
From the book reviews:
“It is recommended reading for academics with an interest in the area. Its secondary audience would be security professionals and software developers. … This well-written book achieves its purposes--to describe the current state of research in the subject area and to outline directions for future research--quite well.” (Neil D. Burgess, Computing Reviews, September, 2014)