Enhanced cyber‐physical security using attack‐resistant cyber nodes and event‐triggered moving target defence

SIREN: a feasible moving target defence framework for securing resource-constrained embedded nodes

Embedded nodes are widely used in several application domains thanks to low-costs and their data acquisition and processing capabilities. In the recent years, particular emphasis was given to pervasive wireless sensor nodes that enabled innovative applications for infrastructure monitoring, crowd-source sensing and mobile cyber-physical infrastructure. Indeed, security is one of the main open c...

Moving to analysis-led cyber-security

Achieving Cyber Survivability in a Contested Environment Using a Cyber Moving Target

E cyber threats in a contested environment provide a challenge in protecting operations and critical assets. Traditional cyber protection mechanisms can prove ineffective when facing a motivated, well-resourced adversary. As a result, many mission critical systems remain vulnerable to advanced, targeted cyber attacks despite the significant amount of effort and resources used to secure them. Co...

Smart defence: an architecture for new challenges to cyber security

The last years have seen an unprecedented amount of attacks. Intrusions on IT-Systems are rising constantly both from a quantitative as well as a qualitative point of view. Recent examples like the hack of the Sony Playstation Network or the compromise of RSA are just some examples of high-quality attack vectors. Since these Smart Attacks are specifically designed to permeate state of the art t...

Information security: The moving target

Information security has evolved from addressing minor and harmless security breaches to managing those with a huge impact on organisations’ economic growth. This paper investigates the evolution of information security; where it came from, where it is today and the direction in which it is moving. It is argued that information security is not about looking at the past in anger of an attack onc...