Przemysław Szary
supervisor: Wojciech Mazurczyk
Nowadays, cybersecurity is a more and more popular field of science. It relates to the increasing number of malware attacks in public and private areas. Cybersecurity has many specialization areas, one of them is the industrial system (known as Operational Technology) cybersecurity. It is a young science field, which I will investigate in my industrial Ph.D. thesis.
Cybersecurity in OT is important, especially in the energy sector, because cyber attacks can damage systems responsible for energy transmission in the whole country. The current approach is usually far from providing security in such systems. For this reason, my experiments are focused on inventing completely new attacks vectors and possible methods of avoiding and mitigating them.
I am particularly interested in implementing network steganography in the connection between two industrial systems. What is more, the connection will be established via the data diode (considered a very safe solution). This specific device is a hardware cybersecurity solution that ensures unidirectional information transfer between two networks. After experiments with cyber attacks, I will focus on the defending sites. Thus, in the next steps, I will present the possible counteraction of them.
So far, I have done an overview of the state of art, and I have started building the data diode and implementing the test bed.