TY - GEN
T1 - Hybrid Cybersecurity Research and Education Environment for Maritime Sector
AU - Visky, Gabor
AU - Siganov, Aleksei
AU - Rehman, Muaan Ur
AU - Vaarandi, Risto
AU - Bahsi, Hayretdin
AU - Bahsi, Hayretdin
AU - Tsiopoulos, Leonidas
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 IEEE.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - Digitalization is a global trend affecting many crit-ical infrastructures, including maritime transportation. Incorpo-rating information and operational technologies into transportation processes significantly enhances efficiency but also introduces substantial risks originating from cyberspace. It is a significant endeavour to develop lab environments to research offensive and defensive aspects of cybersecurity and facilitate hands-on experience in educational settings. This paper introduces a hybrid cybersecurity research and education lab environment for the maritime domain. It enables real-world data to be fed into a controlled setting equipped with various emulation system components. The lab, which combines open-source and low-cost commercial software, also benefits from virtualization technologies and real hardware devices. Its scala-bility and affordability make it a viable solution for educational purposes. Although the environment is defended against external access, it can be provided for third parties on demand. We conducted a series of cyberattacks on the network and an open-source navigation application to demonstrate the effective-ness of our lab setting. The recorded and shared network traffic from these attacks not only serves as a fertile ground for our own research but also invites other researchers to develop and test their solutions, fostering a collaborative environment for the advancement of cybersecurity in the sector.
AB - Digitalization is a global trend affecting many crit-ical infrastructures, including maritime transportation. Incorpo-rating information and operational technologies into transportation processes significantly enhances efficiency but also introduces substantial risks originating from cyberspace. It is a significant endeavour to develop lab environments to research offensive and defensive aspects of cybersecurity and facilitate hands-on experience in educational settings. This paper introduces a hybrid cybersecurity research and education lab environment for the maritime domain. It enables real-world data to be fed into a controlled setting equipped with various emulation system components. The lab, which combines open-source and low-cost commercial software, also benefits from virtualization technologies and real hardware devices. Its scala-bility and affordability make it a viable solution for educational purposes. Although the environment is defended against external access, it can be provided for third parties on demand. We conducted a series of cyberattacks on the network and an open-source navigation application to demonstrate the effective-ness of our lab setting. The recorded and shared network traffic from these attacks not only serves as a fertile ground for our own research but also invites other researchers to develop and test their solutions, fostering a collaborative environment for the advancement of cybersecurity in the sector.
KW - Cybersecurity
KW - Education Environment
KW - Maritime
KW - Research Environment
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U2 - 10.1109/CSR61664.2024.10679392
DO - 10.1109/CSR61664.2024.10679392
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85206182021
T3 - Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience, CSR 2024
SP - 644
EP - 651
BT - Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience, CSR 2024
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2024 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience, CSR 2024
Y2 - 2 September 2024 through 4 September 2024
ER -