Scope

Digital Threats: Research and Practice (DTRAP) is a peer-reviewed Gold Open Access journal that targets the prevention, identification, mitigation, and elimination of digital threats. It is published on a quarterly basis. DTRAP aims to bridge the gap between academic research and industry practice. Accordingly, the journal welcomes manuscripts that address extant digital threats, rather than laboratory models of potential threats, and presents reproducible results pertaining to real-world threats.

DTRAP invites researchers and practitioners to submit manuscripts that present scientific observations about the identification, prevention, mitigation, and elimination of digital threats in all areas, including computer hardware, software, networks, robots, industrial automation, firmware, digital devices, etc. For articles involving analysis, the journal requires the use of relevant data and the demonstration of the importance of the results. For articles involving the results of structured observation such as experimentation and case studies, the journal requires explicit inclusion of rigorous practices; for example, experiments should clearly describe why internal validity, external validity, containment, and transparency hold for the experiment described.

Topics relevant to the journal include (but are not limited to):

Network security
Web-based threats
Point-of-sale threats
Closed-network threats
Malicious software analysis
Exploit analysis
Vulnerability analysis
Adversary tactics
Threat landscape studies
Criminal ecosystem studies
Systems analysis
Critical Infrastructure Threats
Victim response patterns
Adversary attack patterns
Studies of security operations processes/practices/TTPs
Assessment and measurement of security architectures/organization security posture
Threat information management and sharing
Security services or threat intelligence ecosystem studies
Impact of new technologies/protocols on the threat landscape