Sadaf Hina

Dr. Sadaf Hina


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Academic Career Length

8Years (2019-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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7 November 2023 in Computers & Security
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KAKashan Ahmed
Kashan Ahmed
SKSyed Khaldoon Khurshid
Syed Khaldoon Khurshid
SHSadaf Hina
Sadaf Hina

8 June 2023 in Internet of Things
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ZNZainab Noor
Zainab Noor
SHSadaf Hina
Sadaf Hina
FHFaisal Hayat
Faisal Hayat
GSGhalib A Shah
Ghalib A Shah

5 April 2023 in Internet of Things
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SZShahzaib Zahid
Shahzaib Zahid
MMMuhammad Shoaib Mazhar
Muhammad Shoaib Mazhar
SASyed Ghazanfar Abbas
Syed Ghazanfar Abbas
ZHZahid Hanif
Zahid Hanif
SHSadaf Hina
Sadaf Hina
GSGhalib A. Shah
Ghalib A. Shah

5 February 2025 in Internet of Things
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MAMuhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali
YSYasir Saleem
Yasir Saleem
SHSadaf Hina
Sadaf Hina
GSGhalib A. Shah
Ghalib A. Shah

12 April 2023 in Electronics
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HZHuma Zahid
Huma Zahid
SHSadaf Hina
Sadaf Hina
MHMuhammad Faisal Hayat
Muhammad Faisal Hayat
GSGhalib A. Shah
Ghalib A. Shah
The Internet of Things (IoT) provides ease of real-time communication in homes, industries, health care, and many other dependable and interconnected sectors. However, in recent years, smart infrastructure, including cyber-physical industries, has witnessed a severe disruption of operation due to privilege escalation, exploitation of misconfigurations, firmware hijacking, malicious node injection, botnets, and other malware infiltrations. The proposed agentless module for Wazuh security information and event management (SIEM) solution contributes to securing small- to large-scale IoT networks of industry 4.0. An agentless module is implemented by vigilantly examining the IoT device traffic without installing any agent or software on the endpoints. In the proposed research scheme, a module sniffs the network traffic of IoT devices captured from the gateway and passes it to a machine learning model for initial detection and prediction. The output of the ML model is embedded in the JSON log format and passed through the Wazuh agent to the Wazuh server where a decoder is added that decodes the network traffic logs. For event monitoring in Wazuh, industrial protocols are also thoroughly analyzed, and the feature set is determined. These features are used to write rules which are tested on the SWaT dataset, utilizing a common industrial protocol (CIP) for communication. Custom and dynamic rules are written at the Wazuh end to generate alerts to respond to any anomaly detected by the machine learning (ML) model or in the protocols used. Finally, in case of any event or an attack is detected, the alerts are fired on the Wazuh dashboard. This agentless SIEM solution has practical implications for the security of the industrial control systems of industry 4.0.