Project Coordinator: Dr. Eng. Adrian Victor VEVERA – Scientific Researcher II

Short description

This study focuses on ​​industrial control systems. Vulnerabilities of the organizational structure, industrial control systems and networks, and applied security procedures can be exploited involuntarily or deliberately by attackers, generating cyber-events that may have a strong impact on business, critical infrastructure, and national security.

Overall objective of the project

The main objective of the project is cyber ​​security and critical infrastructure protection.

Project description

This study focuses on ​​industrial control systems. Vulnerabilities of the organizational structure, industrial control systems and networks, and applied security procedures can be exploited involuntarily or deliberately by attackers, generating cyber-events that may have a strong impact on business, critical infrastructure, and national security.

In this context, security can cover two very important aspects from a cybernetic point of view: limiting access to run (depending on certain criteria eg date of expiration, number of executions, preset execution days, biometric authentication, mathematics schema authentication or other visual algorithms, etc.), but also the protection of software modules against the analysis, modification or copying of code portions.

The novelty and originality of the project lie in the fact that new methods, algorithms and hardware / software equipment will be developed with applicability in IT infrastructures, monitoring systems and critical infrastructures.

Estimated results

• developing a service-oriented architecture for the acquisition of numerical and metric data;
• performing a “State of the art” analysis of monitoring systems applications, security protocols and cyber intrusion detection algorithms;
• performing a SWOT analysis of time series databases;
• developing a REST web service for the introduction and management of numerical data;
• developing a web-based system management interface;
• developing algorithms / methods of securing traffic;
• developing a software / hardware solution to prevent cyber attacks;
• application structure reports, software security methods;
• personalized security policies;
• comprehensive cyber-attack software solution;
• data monitoring, management, audit, and encryption of proprietary data solutions.