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Cyber-Resilience Enhancing Authentication and Forensics for Industrial Control Systems

Objective

Industrial Control Systems (ICSs), integral to modern critical infrastructures, are increasingly exposed to cyber threats. The project, Cyber-Resilience Enhancing Authentication and Forensics for Industrial Control Systems (CREAF-ICS), proposes a defense-in-depth framework that authenticates communication and enables attack forensics for ICSs. For communication authentication, CREAF-ICS develops an in-network, zero-trust strategy to verify communications of all ICS components. Compared to traditional unencrypted and/or high-latency authentication, CREAF-ICS's in-network design enables encrypted and low-latency verification. For attack forensics, CREAF-ICS develops a cross-domain investigation approach that enables the detection of attacks and the tracing of their origins. Moving beyond state-of-the-art attack attributions in individual information domains, CREAF-ICS is capable of identifying the root causes of abnormal behaviors in physical processes and pinpointing the associated malicious activities in hosts of the ICS network. By reinforcing the pre-incident authentication with during-incident forensic results, CREAF-ICS delivers a self-upgrading defense-in-depth framework, enhancing the ICS cyber-resilience while ensuring seamless integration with existing ICS infrastructures.

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Funding Scheme

HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships

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Call for proposal

(opens in new window) HORIZON-WIDERA-2025-TALENTS-01

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Coordinator

UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS
Net EU contribution
€ 174 379,44
Address
AVENUE PANEPISTIMIOU 2109 AGLANTZI
1678 Nicosia
Cyprus
Region
Κύπρος Κύπρος Κύπρος
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Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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