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Adaptive AI-Driven Post-Quantum Cyber Defense Framework for Enterprise and Government Information Systems
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1 2 4 5 Assistant Professor, KCES’s Institute of Management and Research, Jalgaon, Maharashtra, India. 3 Associate Professor, KCES’s Institute of Management and Research, Jalgaon, Maharashtra, India.
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- May-June 2026
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digital signature scheme. IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems, 238-268.
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Journal of Cryptology, 37(2), 45-72.
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adversarial nets. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2672-2680.
15. Vaswani, A., Shazeer, N., Parmar, N., Uszkoreit, J., Jones, L., Gomez, A. N., Kaiser, Ł., & Polosukhin, I. (2017). Attention is all you
need. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 5998-6008.
16. Mnih, V., Kavukcuoglu, K., Silver, D., Rusu, A. A., Veness, J., Bellemare, M. G., ... & Hassabis, D. (2015). Human-level control
through deep reinforcement learning. Nature, 518(7540), 529-533.
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v1.4. Open-Source AI Infrastructure Alliance.
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tolerant quantum threats. International Journal of Automated Cyber Defense, 14(3), 112-129.
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