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Guardrails for tool-using LLM agents are usually application-specific rules, which makes multi-step, data-dependent safety policies hard to specify, audit and reuse. As a declarative alternative, we evaluate metric first-order temporal logic (MFOTL), replaying the recorded trajectories that AgentDojo, STAC and R-Judge …
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Cyber resiliency in edge-IoT deployments is fundamentally an economic problem: detection must keep critical processes operating under attack, but defender resources (compute, bandwidth, operator attention) are bounded. Centralised cloud monitoring offers expressive cross-device detection at prohibitive bandwidth cost; …
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Security monitoring of edge-IoT fleets faces three structural challenges. (i) A per-node monitor is cheap but cannot see attacks that coordinate across devices. (ii) A cloud monitor sees the full fleet but pays for that view in bandwidth. (iii) Even at the cloud, a monitor built on a single RV engine can be fooled by a …
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The EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) turns product cybersecurity into a lifecycle compliance obligation for manufacturers, importers, distributors, and integrators of products with digital elements on the EU market, a load that falls largely on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that rarely have dedicated governanc …
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Security Operations Centers (SOCs) for information technology and operational technology share one incident-response problem: a flood of correlated alerts and too few analysts. Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly proposed as reasoning engines that triage alerts and, in autonomous deployments, issue commands t …
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Multi-framework Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) platforms increasingly automate the link between an organisation's self-assessment answer and the compliance obligations that answer is said to satisfy. Cross-framework control mapping, AI-suggested question correlation, and automatic propagation of answers and evid …
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The EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), Regulation (EU) 2024/2847, makes product cybersecurity a lifecycle obligation for products with digital elements on the EU market: risk assessment, vulnerability handling, conformity documentation, and Article 14 incident- and vulnerability-reporting readiness must be operational befo …
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Operator-side network profiles derived from 5G/ORAN traffic carry personal data such as ephemeral subscriber identifiers, slice-level KPIs, and control-plane signalling, and must be anonymised before release to a federated-learning aggregator, threat-intelligence exchange, or ML training pipeline. We study how much re- …
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An autonomous system that asks for a privileged physical action is usually gated on integrity evidence: a platform proves what it is running, and the request is granted or refused on that basis. Such a gate is normally treated as a predicate, yet the evidence behind it has an age, the decision that consumes it has a la …
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IPv6 extension headers (EHs), such as fragmentation, segment routing, and in-situ telemetry, are operationally important yetwidely dropped in transit, and characterising their behaviour from packet captures is a recurring measurement problem. We ask whetheran explainable miner can recover human-readable rules of EH beh …
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LLM-based agents are entering decision-support roles in defence staff work, where the obligations they must respect are already written down and binding, and where retraining is not available as a control because models arrive as procured components. What can be placed under engineering control is the interface between …
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Protecting critical infrastructure increasingly depends on continuously verifying large IoT fleets against formal security specifications at runtime. Yet the runtime-verification (RV) pipelines proposed for this task are typically single-host prototypes whose monitors read a shared log file, with no resilience to the f …
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Security operations centres and national incident-response teams defending critical infrastructure collect abundant threat data yet struggle to turn it into actionable intelligence. A malware sandbox produces detailed behavioural evidence, but as a large, unranked report whose confidence is unstated. We present CG-CTI, …
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An automated fact-checking system returns a label: the claim is true, or it is false. In many such systems the verdict remains the primary output. What is generally missing is a record of which document settled the question, of what would have had to be different for the verdict to change, or of whether the same claim, …