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Regaining Trust in IoT

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Program
Computer Science
Field of Study
Computer Science and Engineering
Division
Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering
Faculty Lab Link
https://www.kaust.edu.sa/en/study/faculty/charalambos-konstantinou

Project Description

While embedded devices play an increasingly significant role in the functional interoperability and coordination of various IoT systems, they are often developed without security in mind. The premise of this research is that effective security solutions can benefit from assistance by a trustworthy hardware root of trust. This research involves approaches that utilize device intrinsic (non-)silicon-based physical/hardware characteristics to verify, authenticate, and trust IoT devices. The goal is for such methods is to support and improve detection of security breaches in the device, network, or/and system level within critical information infrastructures. This can be achieved by leveraging the acquired hardware-level values in order to verify the integrity of each layer in a single device as well the integrity of the process variables within a control operation.

About the Researcher

Charalambos Konstantinou
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Science and Engineering Division

Affiliations

Education Profile

  • PhD, New York University, 2018
  • MS, National Technical University of Athens, 2013
  • BS, National Technical University of Athens, 2013

Research Interests

a€‹Professor Konstantinou's research interests are in secure, trustworthy, and resilient cyber-physical and embedded IoT systems. He is also interested in critical infrastructures security and resilience with special focus on smart grid technologies, renewable energy integration, and real-time simulation.

Selected Publications

  • I. Zografopoulos, J. Ospina, X. Liu, and C. Konstantinou, ""Cyber-Physical Energy Systems Security: Threat Modeling, Risk Assessment, Resources, Metrics, and Case Studies,"" in IEEE Access, vol. 9, pp. 29775-29818, 2021, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3058403.
  • C. Konstantinou, ""Cyber-Physical Systems Security Education Through Hands-on Lab Exercises,"" in IEEE Design & Test, vol. 37, no. 6, pp. 47-55, Dec. 2020, doi: 10.1109/MDAT.2020.3005365.
  • O. M. Anubi and C. Konstantinou, ""Enhanced Resilient State Estimation Using Data-Driven Auxiliary Models,"" in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 639-647, Jan. 2020, doi: 10.1109/TII.2019.2924246.
  • C. Konstantinou, et al., ""GPS spoofing effect on phase angle monitoring and control in a real-time digital simulator-based hardware-in-the-loop environment"", IET Cyber-Physical Systems: Theory & Applications, 2017, 2, (4), p. 180-187, doi: 10.1049/iet-cps.2017.0033
  • S. McLaughlin, C. Konstantinou, X. Wang, L. Davi, A. R. Sadeghi, M. Maniatakos, and R. Karri, ""The Cybersecurity Landscape in Industrial Control Systems,"" in Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 104, no. 5, pp. 1039-1057, May 2016, doi: 10.1109/JPROC.2015.2512235.

Desired Project Deliverables

1. Experimental evaluation of an existing hardware-based security approach. 2. Design and implementation of an improved approach incorporating a mixture of hardware signals: build an intrusion detection model capturing any malicious activity in any layer of the system stack.
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