Improving Cyber Situational Awareness via Data mining and Predictive Analytic Techniques

As cyber-attacks have become more common in everyday life, there is a need for maintaining and improving cyber security standards in any business or industry. Cyber Situational Awareness (CSA) is a broad strategy which can be adopted by any business or government to tackle cyber-attacks and incidents. CSA is based on current and past incidents, elements and actors in any system. Managers and decision makers need to monitor their systems constantly to understand ongoing events and changes which it can lead to predict future incidents. Prediction of future cyber incidents then can guide cyber managers to be prepared against future cyber threats and breaches. This research aims to improve cyber situational awareness by developing a framework based on data mining techniques specifically classification methods known as predictive approaches and Open Source Intelligence (OSINT). OSINT is another important element in this research because not only it is accessible publicly but also it is cost effective and research friendly. This research highlights the importance of understanding past and current CSA, which it can lead to more preparation against future cyber threats, and cyber security experts can use the developed framework with other different methods and provide a comprehensive strategy to improve cyber security and safety

Glitch Poetics:Critical Sensory Realism in Contemporary Language Practice

A practice-based research project that introduces the term "Glitch Poetics" as a mode for reading and writing in the digital age: this term overlaps different creative (and uncreative) writing methodologies, and forges new lines of connection between "new media" and the literary and textual. The work is relevant to fields such as Literary Theory, Experimental Writing, Electronic Literature and New Media Art. The research methodology was interdisciplinary, including: synthesising key conceptualisations of "glitch" from media theoretical areas such as media archaeology and software studies, and new media art practitioners such as Rosa Menkman, with those of historical approaches to 'poetics'; performing close readings of contemporary literature, performance and other artistic language practices; and producing art works that move between live performance, exposition and textual practice. Over the course of 4 years, the project achieved a significant level of depth, concluding that "glitches" offer a moment of correspondence between the (already diverse) concerns of poetics and those of critical media practices, forming new disciplinary allegiances and necessitating new hybrid forms of critique. In recent published material I have also illustrated how this critical framework can be deployed to analyse influential books and artworks alongside emerging technologies. The new term "Glitch Poetics" gained traction through a publications in national specialist media, such as Art Monthly, Resonance FM and Poetry Wales, and was developed through interdisciplinary contexts including invited talks at Transmediale festival, Onassis centre in Athens, academic appearances at conferences for new media, literature and poetics, and as a chapter in the Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic Literature. The practice-based components were commissioned by the Bluecoat and FACT, and a final outcome was developed into a publication with Entr'acte records in Antwerp, streamed in its entirety on The Wire website

INSAM Journal of Contemporary Music, Art and Technology 11 (II/2023)

As was the case with the two issues in the previous year, in 2023 the Editorial Board of the INSAM Journal of Contemporary Music, Art and Technology decided to dedicate both issues to the same main theme – “Technological Aspects of Contemporary Artistic and Scientific Research”. Seeing that this subject cannot be so easily exhausted, we are presenting to you another rich and insightful issue