Cybersecurity in Critical Infrastructure

The field of cybersecurity is moving towards more specialized and targeted approaches to protect critical infrastructure, such as maritime and industrial systems, from increasingly sophisticated cyber threats. Researchers are exploring the use of innovative techniques, including honeynets, attack graph generation, and sandbox environments, to better understand and mitigate these threats. A key focus area is the development of more efficient and effective methods for analyzing and detecting cyber attacks, as well as improving the security of communication protocols and networks. Noteworthy papers in this area include: Salty Seagull, which presents a honeynet for simulating VSAT systems on ships to gather insights into ongoing attack campaigns. SaMOSA, which introduces a modular and customizable Linux sandbox for malware analysis that captures multiple side-channels. CoFacS, which presents a complete factory simulation for studying the security of interconnected production lines.

Sources

Salty Seagull: A VSAT Honeynet to Follow the Bread Crumb of Attacks in Ship Networks

Attack Graph Generation on HPC Clusters

CAN Networks Security in Smart Grids Communication Technologies

SaMOSA: Sandbox for Malware Orchestration and Side-Channel Analysis

CoFacS -- Simulating a Complete Factory to Study the Security of Interconnected Production

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