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dr. A. Abhishta (Abhishta)

Assistant Professor

About Me

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.

Expertise

Business & Economics
Attack
Customer Behavior
Denial
Economic Impact
Google
Engineering & Materials Science
Denial-Of-Service Attack
Ecosystems
Internet

Publications

Recent
Haq, M. Y. M. , Abhishta, A., Sommese, R. , Jonker, M., & Nieuwenhuis, L. J. M. (2023). Assessing Network Operator Actions to Enhance Digital Sovereignty and Strengthen Network Resilience: A Longitudinal Analysis during the Russia-Ukraine Conflict. In 2023 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (EuroS&PW) (pp. 487-494). Article 10190662 IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/EuroSPW59978.2023.00060
Abhishta, A., Berghuis, L. , van Heeswijk, W. , & Tursunbayeva, A. (2023). Methodology for Evaluating the Appropriateness of a Business Process for Robotic Process Automation. In Impact of Artificial Intelligence in Business and Society: Opportunities and Challenges (pp. 105-133). Taylor & Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003304616-8
Meurs, T., Cartwright, E., Cartwright, A. , Junger, M. , Hoheisel, R. , Tews, E. , & Abhishta, A. (2023). Ransomware Economics: A Two-Step Approach To Model Ransom Paid. In Symposium on Electronic Crime Research, eCrime 2023 Advance online publication.
Meijer, K. , Abhishta, A. , & Joosten, R. (2023). Role of Culture in Customer Acceptance of Neobanks. In J. van Hillegersberg, J. Osterrieder, F. Rabhi, A. Abhishta, V. Marisetty, & X. Huang (Eds.), Enterprise Applications, Markets and Services in the Finance Industry: 11th International Workshop, FinanceCom 2022, Twente, The Netherlands, August 23–24, 2022, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 97-116). (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing; Vol. 467). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-31671-5_7
van Hillegersberg, J. , Osterrieder, J., Rabhi, F. , Abhishta, A., Marisetty, V. , & Huang, X. (2023). Preface. In Enterprise Applications, Markets and Services in the Finance Industry: 11th International Workshop, FinanceCom 2022, Twente, The Netherlands, August 23–24, 2022, Revised Selected Papers (pp. vii-viii). (Lecture notes in business information processing; Vol. 467). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-31671-5
Haq, M. Y. M. , Abhishta, A., Sommese, R. , Jonker, M. , & Nieuwenhuis, B. (2023). Assessing Network Operator Actions to Enhance Digital Sovereignty and Strengthen Network Resilience: A Longitudinal Analysis during the Russia-Ukraine Conflict. Paper presented at 8th International Workshop on Traffic Measurements for Cybersecurity, WTMC 2023, Delft, Netherlands.

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Affiliated Study Programmes

Bachelor

Courses Academic Year  2023/2024

Courses in the current academic year are added at the moment they are finalised in the Osiris system. Therefore it is possible that the list is not yet complete for the whole academic year.
 

Courses Academic Year  2022/2023

In the press

  • Inside the business model for botnets ([link])
  • Building Botnets For Fun & Profit with Abhishta ([link])

Contact Details

Visiting Address

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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Mailing Address

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