KINAITICS

The interconnection between Information Technologies and Operational Technologies is underway, with many impacts on the related cybersecurity of various application domains. For a long time, we have known that attacks or malfunctions in the cyber world can have serious effects on the physical world, especially in critical infrastructures. Respectively, intentional perturbations of physical systems, through e.g. attacks on sensor measurements, can have disastrous consequences on digital control mechanisms, and thus on physical processes. In this interconnected cyber-physical world, the advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI) opens the door to various new kinds of attacks, and offers numerous defense capabilities. KINAITICS project aims at exploring the new attack opportunities offered by the introduction of AI-based control and perceptive systems, as well as those offered by the combination of behavioral understanding of physical systems and cyber-attacks. On the defense side, KINAITICS aims to offer an innovative spectrum of tools and methodologies, to combine behavioral monitoring and classical cybersecurity tools to protect against these new threats. Importantly, KINAITICS targets to develop innovative methodologies, which incorporate the human factor and the crucial challenges it entails, on how to deal with uncertainties and trustworthiness issues in response decisions. The project will also thoroughly assess the regulation of big data uses and provide guidelines for EU policy actions and cybersecurity experts’ responsible development, thanks to the participation of researchers specialized in legal and ethical aspects of ICT innovation. In a nutshell, KINAITICS will strive to identify all possible AI attacks and the best possible counter-measures against them, while the tools produced during the course of the project, as well as the cyber-defense platform, will significantly improve systems robustness, resilience and response, and will help Europe save 3-4 billion€ yearly by 2030.

Consortium

COMMISSARIAT A L ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES (CEA), FR
ETHNIKO KENTRO EREVNAS KAI TECHNOLOGIKIS ANAPTYXIS (CERTH), GR
FUNDACION CENTRO DE TECNOLOGIAS DE INTERACCION VISUAL Y COMUNICACIONES VICOMTECH (VICOM), ESP
ENGINEERING – INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA SPA (ENG), IT
KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN (KUL), BE
FONDAZIONE TOSCANA GABRIELE MONASTERIO PER LA RICERCA MEDICA E DI SANITA PUBBLICA (FTGM), IT
PLURIBUS ONE SRL (PLURI), IT