dr. A. Abhishta (Abhishta)

Abhishta is an assistant professor at the Industrial Engineering and Business Information Systems group at University of Twente.

His research focuses on empirically measuring the economic/financial impact of cyber attacks. In order to do so he devices/adapts data-driven economic impact assessment techniques. He looks to help organisations make well-measured investments in security.

His doctoral research was funded under NWO project D3 – Distributed Denial-of-Service Defense: protecting schools and other public organizations. You can access a copy of his doctoral thesis here.

Other than finding (un)cool methods of finding the “devil” in financial details he is also involved in teaching and guiding students. From time to time he also delivers lectures to executives and collaborates with companies to help them with security decision making. He is also a member of behavioural data science incubator at the faculty of BMS at the university, where he contributes to solving social science problems using data science.

Business & Economics

# Attack
# Customer Behavior
# Denial
# Economic Impact
# Google

Engineering & Materials Science

# Denial-Of-Service Attack
# Ecosystems
# Internet

Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences (BMS), Industrial Engineering & Business Information Systems (IEBIS)

Kotzias, K. , Bukhsh, F. A., Arachchige, J. J. , Daneva, M. , & Abhishta, A. (2022). Industry 4.0 and healthcare: Context, applications, benefits and challenges. IET software. https://doi.org/10.1049/sfw2.12074

Meurs, T. , Junger, M. , Abhishta, A. , Tews, E., & Ratia, E. (2022). COORDINATE: A model to analyse the benefits and costs of coordinating cybercrime. Journal of internet services and information security, 12(4). https://doi.org/10.58346/JISIS.2022.I4.001

Meurs, T. , Junger, M. , Tews, E. , & Abhishta, A. (2022). Ransomware: How attacker's effort, victim characteristics and context influence ransom requested, payment and financial loss. In Symposium on Electronic Crime Research, eCrime 2022

Meurs, T. W. A. , Junger, M. , Abhishta, A. , & Tews, E. (2022). How Attackers Determine the Ransom in Ransomware Attacks. In 7th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy

Haq, M. Y. M. , Jonker, M. , van Rijswijk - Deij, R. M., Claffy, K. , Nieuwenhuis, B. , & Abhishta, A. (2022). No Time for Downtime: Understanding Post-Attack Behaviors by Customers of Managed DNS Providers. In Proceedings of the 2022 Workshop on Traffic Measurements for Cybersecurity: 2022 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (pp. 322-331). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/EuroSPW55150.2022.00039

Holz, R. , & Abhishta, A. (2021). A message from the program chairs of TAURIN 2021. In TAURIN 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Technologies, Applications, and Uses of a Responsible Internet https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3472951

Haq, M. Y. M. , Abhishta, A., & Nieuwenhuis, L. J. M. (2021). The Effect of Consumer Portfolio on the Risk Profile of Cloud Provider. In SIGCOMM '21: Proceedings of the SIGCOMM '21 Poster and Demo Sessions (pp. 18–20). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3472716.3472851

Junger, M. , Abhishta, A. , & Nieuwenhuis, B. (2021). Crime chain: het verband tussen DDoS-aanvallen en Phishing. Politie & Wetenschap. https://www.politieenwetenschap.nl/publicatie/pw_verkenningen/2021/crime-chain-364/

Alvino, L., Pavone, L. , Abhishta, A., & Robben, H. (2020). Picking Your Brains: Where and How Neuroscience Tools Can Enhance Marketing Research. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 14, [577666]. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2020.577666

Abhishta, A. , van Heeswijk, W. , Junger, M. , Nieuwenhuis, L. J. M. , & Joosten, R. (2020). Why would we get attacked? An analysis of attacker's aims behind DDoS attacks. Journal of wireless mobile networks, ubiquitous computing, and dependable applications, 11(2), 3-22. https://doi.org/10.22667/JOWUA.2020.06.30.003

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Inside the business model for botnets ([link])
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University of Twente
Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences
Ravelijn (building no. 10), room 3351
Hallenweg 17
7522NH Enschede
The Netherlands

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University of Twente
Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences
Ravelijn 3351
P.O. Box 217
7500 AE Enschede
The Netherlands

Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences (BMS), Industrial Engineering & Business Information Systems (IEBIS)

University of Twente Drienerlolaan 5
7522 NB Enschede

+31 (0)53 489 9111
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