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Yasir is a post-doc researcher at the Industrial Engineering and Business Information Systems (IEBIS) group at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. His research focuses on evaluating the economic aspects of cybersecurity, employing empirical methods, especially Internet measurements and data science, to promote further understanding of the threats from management perspectives and help decision makers develop a better security strategy.
He finished his PhD in March 2025 at the same group under the supervision of dr. A. Abhishta and prof.dr.ir. L.J.M. Nieuwenhuis. His doctoral research was funded under NWO project MASCOT – MeAsuring Security in Cloud OuTsourcing, focusing on using empirical methods to measure the security and resilience of the cloud service ecosystem against cyber risks. To achieve this objective, he used Internet measurement techniques to investigate cyber risk in cloud services from two perspectives: as cloud providers and as cloud consumers.
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Expertise Computer Science Network Infrastructure Domain Name Industry Sector Armed Conflict Physical Location cloud provider Malware Scanners Organisations Available topics for master/bachelor thesis:
Investigating the Business Ecosystem of DDoS Scrubbing Service. Developing NIST CSF 2.0 Community Profile for Industrial Symbiosis Hub Navigating the Complexity of Illegal Online Gambling in Southeast Asia If you are interested in the topic, don't hesitate to contact me!
Publications Victimization in DDoS attacks: The role of popularity and industry sector (2025) Journal of information security and applications, 94 . Article 104242. Haq, M. Y. M. , Affinito, A., Botta, A., Sperotto, A., Nieuwenhuis, L. J. M., Jonker, M. & Abhishta, A.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jisa.2025.104242 Measuring Security and Resilience in Cloud Outsourcing for Data-Driven Risk Management (2025) [Thesis › PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT]. University of Twente. Haq, M. Y. M. https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036564847 Victimization in DDoS Attacks: The Role of Popularity and Industry Sector (2024) [Working paper › Preprint]. Social Science Research Network (SSRN) (E-pub ahead of print/First online). Haq, M. Y. M. , Affinito, A., Botta, A., Sperotto, A., Nieuwenhuis, L. J. M., Jonker, M. & Abhishta, A. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4970423 Measuring Malware Detection Capability for Security Decision Making (2024) [Contribution to conference › Paper] 9th International Workshop on Traffic Measurements for Cybersecurity, WTMC 2024 . Haq, M. Y. M. , Abhishta, A., Zeijlemaker, S., Chau, A., Siegel, M. & Nieuwenhuis, L. J. M. Cloud Outsourcing Risk Management for Cloud Consumers: A Systematic Literature Review (2024) ACM computing surveys (Submitted). Haq, M. Y. M. , Anand, S., Abhishta, A. & Nieuwenhuis, L. J. M.Assessing Network Operator Actions to Enhance Digital Sovereignty and Strengthen Network Resilience: A Longitudinal Analysis during the Russia-Ukraine Conflict (2023) In 2023 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (EuroS&PW) (pp. 487-494). Article 10190662. IEEE. Haq, M. Y. M. , Abhishta, A., Sommese, R., Jonker, M. & Nieuwenhuis, L. J. M. https://doi.org/10.1109/EuroSPW59978.2023.00060 Assessing Network Operator Actions to Enhance Digital Sovereignty and Strengthen Network Resilience: A Longitudinal Analysis during the Russia-Ukraine Conflict (2023) [Working paper › Preprint]. ArXiv.org. Haq, M. Y. M. , Abhishta, A., Sommese, R., Jonker, M. & Nieuwenhuis, L. J. M. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2305.17666 Assessing Network Operator Actions to Enhance Digital Sovereignty and Strengthen Network Resilience: A Longitudinal Analysis during the Russia-Ukraine Conflict (2023) [Contribution to conference › Paper] 8th International Workshop on Traffic Measurements for Cybersecurity, WTMC 2023 . Haq, M. Y. M. , Abhishta, A., Sommese, R., Jonker, M. & Nieuwenhuis, L. J. M. No Time for Downtime: Understanding Post-Attack Behaviors by Customers of Managed DNS Providers (2022) In Proceedings of the 2022 Workshop on Traffic Measurements for Cybersecurity: 2022 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (pp. 322-331). IEEE. Haq, M. Y. M. , Jonker, M., van Rijswijk - Deij, R. M., Claffy, k., Nieuwenhuis, L. J. M. & Abhishta, A. https://doi.org/10.1109/EuroSPW55150.2022.00039 Research profiles 
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