C4I SYSTEMS CYBERSECURITY
Research and development of methods for Command and Control Systems, as well as military and civilian ICT infrastructures, specifically:
- secure information sharing mechanisms in a heterogeneous, federated system environments,
- mechanisms for detecting cyber threats, anomalies and unauthorized, malicious activities, as well as for protection against cyber attacks,
- effective mechanisms for traffic control and service provision in a dynamic network environment vulnerable to degradation, in particular for future missions (e.g. for the Federated Mission Network – FMN),
- use of simulation techniques and empirical research to verify the effectiveness and technical maturity level of solutions offered to the Polish Armed Forces,
- application of artificial intelligence and optimization mechanisms to develop advanced solutions.
Implementation of advanced ICT security solutions:
- cross-domain information exchange, ensuring confidentiality, integrity, availability, non-repudiation,
- information labeling mechanisms for traffic inspection and management at the network edge,
- dedicated Public Key Infrastructure architectures,
- authentication and authorization of users and services,
- operations monitoring in ICT infrastructures including actions taken by operators and system functions,
- dedicated mechanisms for network anomalies detection and host based cyber attacks,
Detection of unauthorized activities in ICT networks:
- innovative mechanisms of detecting cyber attacks and network anomalies,
- threat detection and their mitigation in ICT systems,
- evaluation of ICT systems security level,
- detection of malicious access and activities in specialized network environments (e.g. SCADA systems),
- risk assessment,
Development of command and control system infrastructures on the basis of Service Oriented Architectures:
- development of lightweight protocol stacks for SOA in tactical domains,
- use of Software-Defined Networks, cloud, containerization to develop flexible ICT infrastructures,
- research and development of mechanisms for effective information distribution and sharing in the tactical domains (e.g. for BMS – Battlefield Management Systems),
- implementation of services for different infrastructures (High Performance Computing Centers, tactical domains, cloud and wireless networks, IoT systems),
- development and implementation of services for coalition networks (e.g. FMN – Federated Mission Network).