Alumna Zaina Abuabed publishes scientific paper in Computers & Securities journal under supervision of Dr. Ahmad Alsadeh

Zaina Abuabed, former student in the Software Engineering master’s program, published a scientific paper in the Computers & Securities journal, a respected journal ranked as Q1 in the field of IT security.

Titled “STRIDE Threat Model-Based Framework for Assessing the Vulnerabilities of Modern Vehicles,” the paper addresses the increase of attack surface in modern car systems caused by their enhanced features. The paper proposes a new cybersecurity analysis framework that complies with the ISO/SAE 21434:2021 standard. The framework uses the Spoofing, Tampering, Repudiation, Information disclosure, Denial of service, and Elevation of privileges (STRIDE) threat model, the Attack Tree Analysis (ATA) approach, and the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) as a key score exploitation matrix to rate identified potential threats.

The paper was based on the research conducted by Abuabed during a seminar supervised by Dr. Ahmad Alsadeh, assistant professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

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