Guest lecture Friday January 24th, 2025: Associate professor Michail Maniatakos, New York University (NYU) Abu Dhabi, UAE

This talk is part of the course INF-2310 Computer Security but it is open to all.

The lecture will be held in person at Store Auditorium B302 at Realfagbygget, but for those of you who can’t attend it physically the lecture will also be streamed (see url below).

Professional (academic) contact person is Associate Professor Elisavet Kozyri.

Target group: Bachelor, master, PhD students and employees at CS department.

Welcome!

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Date: Friday January 24th, 2005, at 12:15
Place: Store Auditorium B302 at Realfagbygget
Url stremaing: https://uit.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=97780e82-b91b-4538-a29a-b25f00bbce0b
Title: " Dissecting the software supply chain of modern industrial control systems "
Lecturer: Associate professor Michail Maniatakos, New York University (NYU) Abu Dhabi, UAE

Abstract
Recent years have been pivotal in the field of Industrial Control Systems (ICS) security, with a large number of high-profile attacks exposing the lack of a design-for-security initiative in ICS. The evolution of ICS abstracting the control logic to a purely software level hosted on a generic OS, combined with hyperconnectivity and the integration of popular open source libraries providing advanced features, have expanded the ICS attack surface by increasing the entry points and by allowing traditional software vulnerabilities to be repurposed to the ICS domain. In this seminar, we will shed light to the security landscape of modern ICS, dissecting firmware from the dominant vendors and motivating the need of employing appropriate vulnerability assessment tools. We will present methodologies for blackbox fuzzing of modern ICS, both directly using the device and by using the development software. We will then proceed with methodologies on hotpatching, since ICS cannot be easily restarted in order to patch any discovered vulnerabilities. We will demonstrate our proposed methodologies on various critical infrastructure testbeds.

Short Bio
Michail (Mihalis) Maniatakos is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at New York University (NYU) Abu Dhabi, UAE, and a Research Associate Professor at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, New York, USA. He is the Director of the MoMA Laboratory (nyuad.nyu.edu/momalab), NYU Abu Dhabi. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, as well as M.Sc., M.Phil. degrees from Yale University. He also received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Computer Science and Embedded Systems, respectively, from the University of Piraeus, Greece. His research interests, funded by industrial partners, the US government, and the UAE government include privacy-preserving computation and industrial control systems security.

Kortnytt fra Institutt for informatikk

Fuglesteg, Jan jan.fuglesteg@uit.no Studierådgiver