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Publications by Mário João Antunes

2019

Knowledge Representation of Crime-Related Events: a Preliminary Approach

Authors
Carnaz, G; Nogueira, VB; Antunes, M;

Publication
8th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies, SLATE 2019, June 27-28, 2019, Coimbra, Portugal.

Abstract
The crime is spread in every daily newspaper, and particularly on criminal investigation reports produced by several Police departments, creating an amount of data to be processed by Humans. Other research studies related to relation extraction (a branch of information retrieval) in Portuguese arisen along the years, but with few extracted relations and several computer methods approaches, that could be improved by recent features, to achieve better performance results. This paper aims to present the ongoing work related to SEM (Simple Event Model) ontology population with instances retrieved from crime-related documents, supported by an SVO (Subject, Verb, Object) algorithm using hand-crafted rules to extract events, achieving a performance measure of 0.86 (F-Measure). © Gonçalo Carnaz, Vitor Beires Nogueira, and Mário Antunes.

2020

Benchmarking Behavior-Based Intrusion Detection Systems with Bio-inspired Algorithms

Authors
Ferreira, P; Antunes, M;

Publication
Security in Computing and Communications - 8th International Symposium, SSCC 2020, Chennai, India, October 14-17, 2020, Revised Selected Papers

Abstract
Network security encompasses distinct technologies and protocols, being behaviour based network Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) a promising application to detect and identify zero-day attacks and vulnerabilities exploits. In order to overcome the weaknesses of signature-based IDS, behaviour-based IDS applies a wide set of machine learning technologies to learn the normal behaviour of the network, making it possible to detect malicious and not yet seen activities. The machine learning techniques that can be applied to IDS are vast, as are the methods to generate the datasets used for testing. This paper aims to evaluate CSE-CIC-IDS2018 dataset and benchmark a set of supervised bioinspired machine learning algorithms, namely CLONALG Artificial Immune System, Learning Vector Quantization (LVQ) and Back-Propagation Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP). The results obtained were also compared with an ensemble strategy based on a majority voting algorithm. The results obtained show the appropriateness of using the dataset to test behaviour based network intrusion detection algorithms and the efficiency of MLP algorithm to detect zero-day attacks, when comparing with CLONALG and LVQ. © 2021, Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.

2021

Evaluating cybersecurity attitudes and behaviors in Portuguese healthcare institutions

Authors
Nunes, P; Antunes, M; Silva, C;

Publication
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENTERPRISE INFORMATION SYSTEMS / INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PROJECT MANAGEMENT / INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES 2020 (CENTERIS/PROJMAN/HCIST 2020)

Abstract
The growing digitization of healthcare institutions and its increasing dependence on Internet infrastructure has boosted the concerns related to data privacy and confidentiality. These institutions have been challenged with specific issues, namely the sensitivity of data, the specificity of networked equipment, the heterogeneity of healthcare professionals (nurses, doctors, administrative staff and other) and the IT skills they have. In this paper we present the results obtained with a study made with healthcare professionals on evaluating their awareness level with the information security, namely by assessing their attitudes and behaviours in cybersecurity. The methodology consisted in translating, adjusting and applying two previously validated and already published Likert-type response scales, in a healthcare institution in Portugal, namely "Centro Hospitalar Barreiro Montijo" (CHBM). The scales used were cybersecurity risky behaviour (RScB) and cybersecurity and cybercrime in business attitudes (ATC-IB). Although there were no significant statistical differences between the sociodemographic factors and the scores obtained on both scales, the results showed a relationship between acquired behaviours and the attitudes of involvement with work and organizational commitment, establishing a bridge for the quantification in awareness.(C) 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B. V.

2021

Information Security and Cybersecurity Management: A Case Study with SMEs in Portugal

Authors
Antunes, M; Maximiano, M; Gomes, R; Pinto, D;

Publication
Journal of Cybersecurity and Privacy

Abstract
Information security plays a key role in enterprises management, as it deals with the confidentiality, privacy, integrity, and availability of one of their most valuable resources: data and information. Small and Medium-sized enterprises (SME) are seen as a blind spot in information security and cybersecurity management, which is mainly due to their size, regional and familiar scope, and financial resources. This paper presents an information security and cybersecurity management project, in which a methodology based on the well-known ISO-27001:2013 standard was designed and implemented in fifty SMEs that were located in the center region of Portugal. The project was conducted by a business association located at the center of Portugal and mainly participated by SMEs. The Polytechnic of Leiria and an IT auditing/consulting team were the other two entities that participated on the project. The characterisation of the participating enterprises, the ISO-27001:2013 based methodology developed and implemented in SMEs, as well as the results obtained in this case study, are depicted and analysed in the paper. The attained results show a clear benefit to the audited and intervened SMEs, being mainly attested by the increasing of their information security management robustness and collaborators’ cyberawareness.

2021

An Annotated Corpus of Crime-Related Portuguese Documents for NLP and Machine Learning Processing

Authors
Carnaz, G; Antunes, M; Nogueira, VB;

Publication
DATA

Abstract
Criminal investigations collect and analyze the facts related to a crime, from which the investigators can deduce evidence to be used in court. It is a multidisciplinary and applied science, which includes interviews, interrogations, evidence collection, preservation of the chain of custody, and other methods and techniques of investigation. These techniques produce both digital and paper documents that have to be carefully analyzed to identify correlations and interactions among suspects, places, license plates, and other entities that are mentioned in the investigation. The computerized processing of these documents is a helping hand to the criminal investigation, as it allows the automatic identification of entities and their relations, being some of which difficult to identify manually. There exists a wide set of dedicated tools, but they have a major limitation: they are unable to process criminal reports in the Portuguese language, as an annotated corpus for that purpose does not exist. This paper presents an annotated corpus, composed of a collection of anonymized crime-related documents, which were extracted from official and open sources. The dataset was produced as the result of an exploratory initiative to collect crime-related data from websites and conditioned-access police reports. The dataset was evaluated and a mean precision of 0.808, recall of 0.722, and F1-score of 0.733 were obtained with the classification of the annotated named-entities present in the crime-related documents. This corpus can be employed to benchmark Machine Learning (ML) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) methods and tools to detect and correlate entities in the documents. Some examples are sentence detection, named-entity recognition, and identification of terms related to the criminal domain.

2021

A Graph Database Representation of Portuguese Criminal-Related Documents

Authors
Carnaz, G; Nogueira, VB; Antunes, M;

Publication
INFORMATICS-BASEL

Abstract
Organizations have been challenged by the need to process an increasing amount of data, both structured and unstructured, retrieved from heterogeneous sources. Criminal investigation police are among these organizations, as they have to manually process a vast number of criminal reports, news articles related to crimes, occurrence and evidence reports, and other unstructured documents. Automatic extraction and representation of data and knowledge in such documents is an essential task to reduce the manual analysis burden and to automate the discovering of names and entities relationships that may exist in a case. This paper presents SEMCrime, a framework used to extract and classify named-entities and relations in Portuguese criminal reports and documents, and represent the data retrieved into a graph database. A 5WH1 (Who, What, Why, Where, When, and How) information extraction method was applied, and a graph database representation was used to store and visualize the relations extracted from the documents. Promising results were obtained with a prototype developed to evaluate the framework, namely a name-entity recognition with an F-Measure of 0.73, and a 5W1H information extraction performance with an F-Measure of 0.65.

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