Qatar University

Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development

Alaa Hussein

Armstrong Nhlabatsi

Khaled M Khan

Dong Seong Kim

Noora Fetais

Jin Hong

Rachael Fernandez

The presently disclosed technology provides a threat-specific network risk evaluation tailored to a client's security objectives. The present technology may include identifying a plurality of threats to a first component of a networked system and assigning a plurality of weighting values to the plurality of threats according to the client's security objectives. The present technology may include identifying a plurality of vulnerabilities of the first component and determining a set of relevant threats for the first vulnerability based on the nature of the vulnerability and the weighting values assigned to the plurality of threats. The set of relevant threats includes one or more of the plurality of threats. The present technology may include determining a set of relevant threats for each of the identified vulnerabilities of the first component and calculating a risk of the first component based on the sets of the relevant threats.

Threat-specific security risk evaluation for networked systems

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Doha, Qatar

Alaa Hussein