RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS

BOOK/CHAPTER PUBLISHED

• 2020: K. Adewole, N. Saxena, and S. Bhadauria, “Application of Cryptocurrencies using Blockchain for E-Commerce Online Payment,” Blockchain for Cybersecurity and Privacy: Architectures, Challenges and Applications, C&C Press, 2020. 

• 2019: N. Saxena, R. S. Bhadoria, S. Dickerson, S. Branch, L. Dalley, and N. Churchill, “Security and Privacy Issues in UK Healthcare,” Security and Privacy of Electronic Healthcare Records: Concepts, Paradigms and Solutions, IET, 2019.

• 2019: R. S. Bhadoria, A. Nimbalkar, and N. Saxena, “On the Role of Blockchain Technology in Internet of Things,” Advanced Applications of Blockchain Technology, Springer, 2019, pp. 129-140.

INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS

• 2022: M. N. Nafees, N. Saxena, A. Cardenas, S. Grijalva, and P. Burnap, “Smart Grid Cyber-Physical Situational Awareness of Complex Operational Technology Attacks: A Review,” ACM Computing Survey, 2022.

• 2022: M. Althunayyan, N. Saxena, S. Li, and P. Gope, “Evaluation of Black-Box Web Application Security Scanners in Detecting Injection Vulnerabilities,” Electronics (MDPI), SI: Design of Intelligent Intrusion Detection Systems, 2022. (IF: 2.397)

• 2022: J. C. Merlino, M. Asiri, and N. Saxena, “DDoS Cyber-Incident Detection in Smart Grid,” Sustainability (MDPI), SI: Securing Smart Grid Cyber-Physical Infrastructure against Emerging Threats, 2022. (IF: 3.251)

• 2021: F. Orr, M. N. Nafees, N. Saxena, and B. J. Choi, “Securing Publisher–Subscriber Smart Grid Infrastructure,” Electronics (MDPI), SI: Cyber-Physical Security in Smart Grids: System Analysis and Control Design, 10(19), 2355, 2021. (IF: 2.397)

• 2021: C. Liu, Y. Alrowaili, N. Saxena, and C. Konstantinou, “Cyber Risks to Critical Smart Grid Assets of Industrial Control Systems,” Energies (MDPI), Special Issue: Big Data and Advanced Analytics in Energy Systems and Applications, 2021. (IF: 3.004)

• 2021: G. Burke and N. Saxena, “Cyber Risks Prediction and Analysis in Medical Emergency Equipment for Situational Awareness,” Sensors (MDPI), Special Issue: Cyber Situational Awareness in Computer Networks, 2021. (IF: 3.576)

• 2021: S. M. Karunarathne, N. Saxena and M. K. Khan, “Security and Privacy in IoT Smart Healthcare,” IEEE Internet Computing, 2021. (IF: 4.231)

• 2021: P. Gope, O. Millwood, and N. Saxena, “A Provably Secure Authentication Scheme for RFID-enabled UAV Applications,” Computer Communications (COMCOM), 166, 2021, 19-25. (IF: 2.816)

• 2020: N. Saxena, E. Hayes, E. Bertino, P. Ojo, K.-K. R. Choo, and P. Burnap, “Impact and Key Challenges of Insider Threats on Organizations and Critical Businesses,” Electronics, MDPI, Vol. 9, No. 9, Sep. 2020. (IF: 3.004)

• 2020: Y.-H. Tung, H.-C. Wei, Y.-W. Ti, Y.-T. Tsou, N. Saxena, and C.-M. Yu, “Counteracting UDP Flooding Attacks in SDN," Electronics, MDPI Vol. 9, No. 8, Aug. 2020. (IF: 3.004)

• 2020: N. Saxena, A. A. Cardenas, R. Beyah, R. Lu, K.-K. R. Choo, and Y. Chen, “Introduction to the Special Issue on User-Centric Security and Safety for CPS,” ACM Trans. Cyber-Phys. Syst., Vol. 4, No. 3, Article 29, May 2020. 

• 2020: N. Saxena, I. Thomas, P. Gope, P. Burnap, and N. Kumar, “PharmaCrypt: Blockchain for Critical Pharmaceutical Industry to Counterfeit Drugs,” IEEE Computer, 2020. (IF: 3.564) 

• 2019: N. Saxena, M. Conti, K.-K. R. Choo, and N. S. Chaudhari, “BAS-VAS: A Novel Secure Protocol for Value Added Service Delivery to Mobile Devices," IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2020, 15, 1470-1485 . (IF: 6.211)

• 2018: N. Saxena, L. Xiong, V. Chukwuka, and S. Grijalva, “Impact Evaluation of Malicious Control Commands in Cyber-Physical Smart Grids," IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, 2018.

• 2018: N. Saxena and H. Shen, N. Komninos, K.-K. R. Choo, and N. S. Chaudhari, “BVPSMS: A Batch Verification Protocol for End-to-End Secure SMS for Mobile Users,” IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2020, 17(3), 550-565. (IF: 6.404)

• 2018: N. Saxena and S. Grijalva, “Efficient Signature Scheme for Delivering Authentic Control Commands and Alert Messages in the Smart Grid,” IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 9(5), Sep. 2018, 4323-4334. (IF: 10.49)

• 2018: N. Saxena and B. J. Choi, “Integrated Lightweight Authentication Protocol for Smart Grid Communications,” IEEE Systems Journal, 12(3), Sep. 2018, 2545-2556. (IF: 4.463)

INTERNATIONAL/NATIONAL CONFERENCES

• 2022: M. N. Nafees, N. Saxena, and P. Burnap, “Physics-Informed Augmentation for Contextual Anomaly Detection in Smart Grid, ACM CCS, 2022.

• 2022: M. N. Nafees, N. Saxena, and P. Burnap, “On the Efficacy of Physics-Informed Context-Based Anomaly Detection for Power Systems,” IEEE SmartGridComm, Singapore, 2022.

• 2022: R. Khan, N. Saxena, O. Rana, and P. Gope, “ATVSA: Driver Profiling for Situational Awareness”, IEEE European Security and Privacy Workshop (Automotive Cyber Security), Genoa, Italy, 6-10 Jun. 2022.

• 2022: A. S. Mohammed, N. Saxena, and O. Rana, “Wheels on the Modbus - Attacking ModbusTCP Communications,” ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (ACM WiSec), San Antonio, USA, 16-19 May 2022.

• 2021: M. N. Nafees, N. Saxena, and P. Burnap, “Optimized Predictive Control for AGC Cyber Resiliency,” 28th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM CCS), 15-19 Nov. 2021.

• 2021: Y. Alrowaili, N. Saxena, and P. Burnap, “Determining Asset Criticality in Cyber-Physical Smart Grid ,” 26th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS), 4-8 Oct. 2021.

• 2021: M. Asiri, N. Saxena, and P. Burnap, “Investigating Usable Indicators against Cyber-Attacks in Industrial Control Systems,” 17th USENIX Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS), 8-10 Aug. 2021.

• 2021: M. N. Nafees, N. Saxena, and P. Burnap, “Specification-Based Process Control Attack Detection in Substation Automation,” IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SSP), 23-27 May 2021.

• 2020: M. N. Nafees, N. Saxena, R. Khan, and P. Burnap, “Towards Distance Relay Attack Discrimination for Situational Awareness-Based Anomaly Detection,” Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), 7-11 Dec. 2020.  

• 2020: M. N. Nafees, N. Saxena, P. Burnap, and B. J. Choi, “Impact of Energy Consumption Attacks on LoRaWAN Enabled Devices in Industrial Context,” ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 9-13 Nov. 2020. 

• 2018: J. A. Stone, N. Saxena, and H. Dogan, “Systematic Analysis: Resistance to Traffic Analysis Attacksin Tor System for Critical Infrastructures,” IEEE International Conference on System, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), Miyazaki, Japan, 7-10 Oct. 2018.

• 2018: N. Saxena, S. Grijalva, and B. J. Choi, “Securing Restricted Publisher-Subscriber Communications in Smart Grid Substations,” International Conference on COMmunication Systems and NETworkS (COMSNETS), Bengaluru, India, 3-7 Jan. 2018, 364-371. 

• 2017: N. Saxena, V. Katos, and N. Kumar, “Cyber-Physical Smart Grid Security Tool for Education and Training Purposes,” International Workshop on Realigning Cyber Security Education, Canberra, Australia, 27 Nov. 2017, 1-6.

• 2017: N. Saxena, V. Chukwuka, L. Xiong, and S. Grijalva, “CPSA: A Cyber-Physical Security Assessment Tool for Situational Awareness in Smart Grid,” 3rd ACM Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems Security & Privacy (CPS-SPC) in Conjunction with ACM CCS, Dallas, USA, 3 Nov. 2017, 69-79.

• 2017: N. Saxena and N. S. Chaudhari, “Secure Algorithms for SAKA Protocol in the GSM Network,” 10th IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference (WMNC), Valencia, Spain, 25-27 Sep. 2017, 1-8.

• 2017: N. Saxena, B. J. Choi, and S. Grijalva, "Secure and Privacy-Preserving Concentration of Meeting Data in AMI Networks," IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Paris, France, 21-25 May, 2017, 1-7.
  [IEEE ComSoc Young Professional and WICE Best Paper Award]