TOWARDS RISK BASED PREVENTION OF GROOMING ATTACKS

Dimitrios Michalopoulos, Ioannis Mavridis

2010

Abstract

The increasing incidents of children sexual exploitation through cyberspace demand for proper protection with technological defense mechanisms. This paper aims to present and evaluate methods and tools that are appropriate towards the prevention of child sexual abuse through Internet based communications. Attacking categories and strategies that predators follow are analyzed and modeled. Moreover, a comparative review of existing risk modeling methods, which is based on a set of proposed criteria, is presented. This comparison results in the conclusion that only two of the reviewed risk modeling methods can be adapted on the intended grooming attack detection system: Bayesian and Markovian. The proposed approach is concluded with a discussion on particular methods and tools for accurate attack probability calculation.

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Michalopoulos D. and Mavridis I. (2010). TOWARDS RISK BASED PREVENTION OF GROOMING ATTACKS . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2010) ISBN 978-989-8425-18-8, pages 217-220. DOI: 10.5220/0002986702170220


in Bibtex Style

@conference{secrypt10,
author={Dimitrios Michalopoulos and Ioannis Mavridis},
title={TOWARDS RISK BASED PREVENTION OF GROOMING ATTACKS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2010)},
year={2010},
pages={217-220},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002986702170220},
isbn={978-989-8425-18-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2010)
TI - TOWARDS RISK BASED PREVENTION OF GROOMING ATTACKS
SN - 978-989-8425-18-8
AU - Michalopoulos D.
AU - Mavridis I.
PY - 2010
SP - 217
EP - 220
DO - 10.5220/0002986702170220