Object Oriented Security - The spread of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the use of smart control systems in many mission-critical or safetycritical applications domains, like automotive or aeronautical, make devices attractive targets for attackers. Nowadays, several of these are mixed-criticality systems, i.e., they run both highcriticality tasks (e.g., a car control system) and low-criticality ones (e.g., infotainment). High-criticality routines often employ Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS) to enforce hard real-time requirements, while the tasks with lower constraints can be delegated to more generic-purpose operating systems (GPOS).
Authored by Vahid Moghadam, Paolo Prinetto, Gianluca Roascio
Object Oriented Security - At present, the traditional substation auxiliary control system is faced with the following four problems: poor real-time capability to abnormal response, high dependence on people when solving malfunctions, the communication, deployment and expansion of different underlying devices, and the lack of security mechanism. To solve these problems or optimize the functions, an intelligent substation auxiliary control system is proposed. The system innovatively applies OPC UA to the construction of the auxiliary control system. First, through the use of OPC UA s unique object-oriented modeling method as well as the joint specification modeling of OPC UA and IEC61850, to solve the data communication problems caused by heterogeneous devices. Second, applying the Client/Server mode to realize the remote access from authorized mobile clients and give instructions, to cope with abnormal conditions, which reduces the dependency on people. Clients of other authorized enterprises are allowed to access the working data of the devices they are interested in, makes full use of massive data and ensures the information security of the system. Third, Pub/Sub mode is applied to enable the underlying devices to communicate directly with each other through the middleware, which reduces the response time of equipment joint debugging and improve the real-time performance. In addition, through OPC UA, the industrial data of the system can be transmitted over the Internet, realizing the combination of the Internet of Things and the Internet, which is an idea of the combination of the two in the future.
Authored by Chun Zhu, Binai Li, Zhengyu Lv, Xiaoyu Zhao
Object Oriented Security - In Production System Engineering (PSE), domain experts aim at effectively and efficiently analyzing and mitigating information security risks to product and process qualities for manufacturing. However, traditional security standards do not connect security analysis to the value stream of the production system nor to production quality requirements. This paper aims at facilitating security analysis for production quality already in the design phase of PSE. In this paper, we (i) identify the connection between security and production quality, and (ii) introduce the Production Security Network (PSN) to efficiently derive reusable security requirements and design patterns for PSE. We evaluate the PSN with threat scenarios in a feasibility study. The study results indicate that the PSN satisfies the requirements for systematic security analysis. The design patterns provide a good foundation for improving the communication of domain experts by connecting security and quality concerns.
Authored by David Hoffmann, Stefan Biffl, Kristof Meixner, Arndt Lüder
Object Oriented Security - For the last 20 years, the number of vulnerabilities has increased near 20 times, according to NIST statistics. Vulnerabilities expose companies to risks that may seriously threaten their operations. Therefore, for a long time, it has been suggested to apply security engineering – the process of accumulating multiple techniques and practices to ensure a sufficient level of security and to prevent vulnerabilities in the early stages of software development, including establishing security requirements and proper security testing. The informal nature of security requirements makes it uneasy to maintain system security, eliminate redundancy and trace requirements down to verification artifacts such as test cases. To deal with this problem, Seamless Object-Oriented Requirements (SOORs) promote incorporating formal requirements representations and verification means together into requirements classes.
Authored by Ildar Nigmatullin, Andrey Sadovykh, Nan Messe, Sophie Ebersold, Jean-Michel Bruel
Object Oriented Security - A growing number of attacks and the introduction of new security standards, e.g. ISO 21434, are increasingly shifting the focus of industry and research to the cybersecurity of vehicles. Being cyber-physical systems, compromised vehicles can pose a safety risk to occupants and the environment. Updates over the air and monitoring of the vehicle fleet over its entire lifespan are therefore established in current and future vehicles. Elementary components of such a strategy are security sensors in the form of firewalls and intrusion detection systems, for example, and an operations center where monitoring and response activities are coordinated. A critical step in defending against, detecting, and remediating attacks is providing knowledge about the vehicle and fleet context. Whether a vehicle is driving on the highway or parked at home, what software version is installed, or what security incidents have occurred affect the legitimacy of data and network traffic. However, current security measures lack an understanding of how to operate in an adjusted manner in different contexts. This work is therefore dedicated to a concept to make security measures for vehicles context-aware. We present our approach, which consists of an object-oriented model of relevant context information within the vehicle and a Knowledge Graph for the fleet. With this approach, various use cases can be addressed, according to the different requirements for the use of context knowledge in the vehicle and operations center.
Authored by Daniel Grimm, Eric Sax
Neural Style Transfer - With the emergence of deep perceptual image features, style transfer has become a popular application that repaints a picture while preserving the geometric patterns and textures from a sample image. Our work is devoted to the combination of perceptual features from multiple style images, taken at different scales, e.g. to mix large-scale structures of a style image with fine-scale textures. Surprisingly, this turns out to be difficult, as most deep neural representations are learned to be robust to scale modifications, so that large structures tend to be tangled with smaller scales. Here a multi-scale convolutional architecture is proposed for bi-scale style transfer. Our solution is based on a modular auto-encoder composed of two lightweight modules that are trained independently to transfer style at specific scales, with control over styles and colors.
Authored by Thibault Durand, Julien Rabin, David Tschumperle
Neural Style Transfer - With the development of economical society, the problem of product piracy security is becoming more and more serious. In order to protect the copyright of brands, based on the image neural style transfer, this paper proposes an automatic generation algorithm of anti-counterfeiting logo with security shading, which increases the difficulty of illegal copying and packaging production. VGG19 deep neural network is used to extract image features and calculate content response loss and style response loss. Based on the original neural style transfer algorithm, the content loss is added, and the generated security shading is fused with the original binary logo image to generate the anti-counterfeiting logo image with higher recognition rate. In this paper, the global loss function is composed of content loss, content response loss and style response loss. The L-BFGS optimization algorithm is used to iteratively reduce the global loss function, and the relationship between the weight adjustment, the number of iterations and the generated anti-counterfeiting logo among the three losses is studied. The secret keeping of shading style image used in this method increases the anti-attack ability of the algorithm. The experimental results show that, compared with the original logo, this method can generate the distinguishable logo content, complex security shading, and has convergence and withstand the attacks.
Authored by Zhenjie Bao, Chaoyang Liu, Jinqi Chen, Jinwei Su, Yujiao Cao
Neural Style Transfer - As one of the fields of computer art creation, style transfer has become more and more popular. However, in order to obtain good visual effects, a large number of neural style transfer algorithms use semantic map to guide the style transfer between the correct regions. As an important means to ensure the quality of style transfer, semantic map can meaningfully control the results of style transfer. However, the method of manually generating semantic graph is cumbersome and inefficient. In this paper, we introduce a semantic segmentation network to automatically generate the semantic map required by neural style transfer, and combine it with neural style transfer network, we propose a new neural style transfer algorithm. Experiments show that our algorithm not only avoids cumbersome manual work, but also generates high-quality style transfer results.
Authored by ChangMing Wu, Min Yao
Neural Style Transfer - Style transfer is an optimizing technique that aims to blend style of input image to content image. Deep neural networks have previously surpassed humans in tasks such as object identification and detection. Deep neural networks, on the contrary, had been lagging behind in generating higher quality creative products until lately. This article introduces deep-learning techniques, which are vital in accomplishing human characteristics and open up a new world of prospects. The system employs a pre-trained CNN so that the styles of the provided image is transferred to the content image to generate high quality stylized image. The designed systems effectiveness is evaluated based on Mean Square Error (MSE), Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR) and Structural Similarity Index Metrics (SSIM), it is noticed that the designed method effectively maintains the structural and textural information of the cover image.
Authored by Kishor Bhangale, Pranoti Desai, Saloni Banne, Utkarsh Rajput
Neural Style Transfer - Arbitrary image style transfer is a challenging task which aims to stylize a content image conditioned on arbitrary style images. In this task the feature-level content-style transformation plays a vital role for proper fusion of features. Existing feature transformation algorithms often suffer from loss of content or style details, non-natural stroke patterns, and unstable training. To mitigate these issues, this paper proposes a new feature-level style transformation technique, named Style Projection, for parameter-free, fast, and effective content-style transformation. This paper further presents a real-time feed-forward model to leverage Style Projection for arbitrary image style transfer, which includes a regularization term for matching the semantics between input contents and stylized outputs. Extensive qualitative analysis, quantitative evaluation, and user study have demonstrated the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed methods.
Authored by Siyu Huang, Haoyi Xiong, Tianyang Wang, Bihan Wen, Qingzhong Wang, Zeyu Chen, Jun Huan, Dejing Dou
Neural Style Transfer - Deep learning has shown promising results in several computer vision applications, such as style transfer applications. Style transfer aims at generating a new image by combining the content of one image with the style and color palette of another image. When applying style transfer to a 4D Light Field (LF) that represents the same scene from different angular perspectives, new challenges and requirements are involved. While the visually appealing quality of the stylized image is an important criterion in 2D images, cross-view consistency is essential in 4D LFs. Moreover, the need for large datasets to train new robust models arises as another challenge due to the limited LF datasets that are currently available. In this paper, a neural style transfer approach is used, along with a robust propagation based on over-segmentation, to stylize 4D LFs. Experimental results show that the proposed solution outperforms the state-ofthe-art without any need for training or fine-tuning existing ones while maintaining consistency across LF views.
Authored by Maryam Hamad, Caroline Conti, Paulo Nunes, Luis Soares
Neural Style Transfer - Text style transfer is a relevant task, contributing to theoretical and practical advancement in several areas, especially when working with non-parallel data. The concept behind nonparallel style transfer is to change a specific dimension of the sentence while retaining the overall context. Previous work used adversarial learning to perform such a task. Although it was not initially created to work with textual data, it proved very effective. Most of the previous work has focused on developing algorithms capable of transferring between binary styles, with limited generalization capabilities and limited applications. This work proposes a framework capable of working with multiple styles and improving content retention (BLEU) after a transfer. The proposed framework combines supervised learning of latent spaces and their separation within the architecture. The results suggest that the proposed framework improves content retention in multi-style scenarios while maintaining accuracy comparable to state-of-the-art.
Authored by Lorenzo Vecchi, Eliane Maffezzolli, Emerson Paraiso
Neural Style Transfer - Reducing inter-subject variability between new users and the measured source subjects, and effectively using the information of classification models trained by source subject data, is very important for human–machine interfaces. In this study, we propose a style transfer mapping (STM) and fine-tuning (FT) subject transfer framework using convolutional neural networks (CNNs). To evaluate the performance, we used two types of public surface electromyogram datasets named MyoDatasets and NinaPro database 5. Our proposed framework, STM-FT-CNN, showed the best performances in all cases compared with conventional subject transfer frameworks. In the future, we will build an online processing system that includes this subject transfer framework and verify its performance in online experiments.
Authored by Suguru Kanoga, Takayuki Hoshino, Mitsunori Tada
Neural Style Transfer - Image style transfer is an important research content related to image processing in computer vision. Compared with traditional artificial computing methods, deep learning-based convolutional neural networks in the field of machine learning have powerful advantages. This new method has high computational efficiency and a good style transfer effect. To further improve the quality and efficiency of image style transfer, the pre-trained VGG-16 neural network model and VGG-19 neural network model are used to achieve image style transfer, and the transferred images generated by the two neural networks are compared. The research results show that the use of the VGG-16 convolutional neural network to achieve image style transfer is better and more efficient.
Authored by Yilin Tao
Neural Network Security - Trust is an essential concept in ad hoc network security. Creating and maintaining trusted relationships between nodes is a challenging task. This paper proposes a decentralized method for evaluating trust in ad hoc networks. The method uses neural networks and local information to predict the trust of neighboring nodes. The method was compared with the original centralized version, showing that even without global information knowledge, the method has, on average, 97\% accuracy in classification and 94\% in regression problem. An important contribution of this paper is overcoming the main limitation of the original method, which is the centralized evaluation of trust. Moreover, the decentralized method output is a perfect fit to use as an input to enhance routing in ad hoc networks.
Authored by Yelena Trofimova, Viktor Cerny, Jan Fesl
Neural Network Security - Software-Defined Network (SDN) is a new networking paradigm that adopts centralized control logic and provides more control to the network operators over the network infrastructure to meet future network requirements. SDN controller known as operation system, which is responsible for running network applications and maintaining the different network services and functionalities. Despite all its great capabilities, SDN is facing different security threats due to its various architectural entities and centralized nature. Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) is a promptly growing attack and becomes a major threat for the SDN. To date, most of the studies focus on detecting high-rate DDoS attacks at the control layer of SDN and low-rate DDoS attacks are high concealed because they are difficult to detect. Furthermore, the existing methods are useful for the detection of high-rate DDoS, so need to focus on low-rate DDoS attacks separately. Hence, the use of machine learning algorithms is growing for the detection of low-rate DDoS attacks in the SDN, but they achieved low accuracy against this attack. To improve the detection accuracy, this paper first describes the attack s mechanism and then proposes a Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) based method. The extracted features from the flow rules are used by the RNN for the detection of low-rate attacks. The experimental results show that the proposed method intelligently detects the attack, and its detection accuracy reaches 98.59\%. The proposed method achieves good detection accuracy as compared to existing studies.
Authored by Muhammad Nadeem, Hock Goh, Yichiet Aun, Vasaki Ponnusamy
Neural Network Security - Aiming at the network security problem caused by the rapid development of network, this paper uses a network traffic anomaly detection method of industrial control system based on convolutional neural network. In the traditional machine learning algorithm, the processing of features has a high impact on the performance of the model, and the model is highly dependent on features. This method uses the characteristics of convolutional neural network to autonomously learn features, which avoids this problem. In order to verify the superiority of the model, this paper takes accuracy as the evaluation index, and compares it with the traditional machine learning algorithm. The results show that the overall accuracy of the method is 99.88 \%, which has higher accuracy than traditional machine learning algorithms such as decision tree algorithm (ID3), adaptive boosting tree (Adboost) and naive Bayesian model. Therefore, this method can be better applied to the anomaly detection of network traffic in industrial control system, and has practical application value.
Authored by Huawei Deng, Yanqing Zhao, Xiwang Li, Yongze Ma
Neural Network Security - With the development of computer and network technology, industrial control systems are connecting with the Internet and other public networks in various ways, viruses, trojans and other threats are spreading to industrial control systems, industrial control system information security issues are becoming increasingly prominent. Under this background, it is necessary to construct the network security evaluation model of industrial control system based on the safety evaluation criteria and methods, and complete the safety evaluation of the industrial control system network according to the design scheme. Based on back propagation (BP) neural network’s evaluation of the network security status of industrial control system, this paper determines the number of neurons in BP neural network input layer, hidden layer and output layer by analyzing the actual demand, empirical equation calculation and experimental comparison, and designs the network security evaluation index system of industrial control system according to factors affecting industrial control safety, and constructs a safety rating table. Finally, by comparing the performance of BP neural network and multilinear regression to the evaluation of the network security status of industrial control system through experimental simulation, it can be found that BP neural network has higher accuracy for the evaluation of network security status of industrial control system.
Authored by Daojuan Zhang, Peng Zhang, Wenhui Wang, Minghui Jin, Fei Xiao
Neural Network Security - With the continuous development of network technology and the continuous expansion of network scale, the security of the network has suffered more threats, and the attacks faced are becoming more and more extensive. The frequent occurrence of network security incidents has caused huge losses, facing more and more severe situation, it is necessary to adopt various network security technologies to solve the problem. In network security, the most commonly used technology is firewall. The firewall has a certain blocking effect on attacks from outside the network, but it has a weak defense effect on the attacks in the internal network, and it is easy to be bypassed. Intrusion detection technology can detect both internal and external network attacks. Responses are generated before the intrusion behavior occurs, and alarm information is issued for timely and effective processing. In recent years, China s campus security incidents are still happening, seriously threatening the lives of students and disrupting the normal teaching order of schools. At present, there are still many loopholes in campus security operations. Campus security management system has become an important task in campus security construction. On this basis, relevant personnel are required to analyze the existing problems of campus safety and the needs of the safety management system, and find the main technology of a more advanced intelligent safety management system.
Authored by Xuanyuan Gu
Neural Network Security - With the rapid development of computer networks and information technology today, people are more inclined to use network systems to achieve various data exchanges. Alibaba, Tencent and other companies virtual payment has become the mainstream payment method. Due to the globalization and openness of the network, anyone can freely enter and exit, which brings huge hidden dangers to NS(network security). NS has become an important issue that we have to face. Once important information is stolen, it is likely to cause very large losses to individuals and even the society. This article mainly studies the computer NS encryption technology of neural network. First of all, the current situation of computer NS is comprehensively reflected from the two aspects of domestic Internet users and NS penetration rate in recent years. By 2020, the number of Chinese residents using the Internet has reached 1.034 billion, and 77.3\% of Internet users are generally aware of NS. Secondly, it analyzes the effect of NN(neural network) on computer NS encryption technology. The results show that the use of NN in computer encryption technology not only helps to improve security and convenience, but also prevents the secondary transmission of data and prevents related information leakage.
Authored by Zejian Dong
Neural Network Security - With the development of computing technology, data security and privacy protection have also become the focus of researchers; along with this comes the issue of network link security and reliability, and these issues have become the focus of discussion when studying network security. Intrusion detection is an effective means to assist in network malicious traffic detection and maintain network stability; to meet the ever-changing demand for network traffic identification, intrusion detection models have undergone a transformation from traditional intrusion detection models to machine learning intrusion detection models to deep intrusion detection models. The efficiency and superiority of deep learning have been proven in fields such as image processing, but there are still some problems in the field of network security intrusion detection: the models are not targeted when processing data, the models have poor generalization ability, etc. The combinatorial neural network proposed in this paper can effectively propose a solution to the problems of existing models, and the CL-IDS model proposed in this paper has a better performance on the KDDCUP99 dataset as demonstrated by relevant experiments.
Authored by Gaodi Xu, Jinghui Zhou, Yunlong He
Neural Network Resiliency - Over the past few years, deep neural networks (DNNs) have been used to solve a wide range of real-life problems. However, DNNs are vulnerable to adversarial attacks where carefully crafted input perturbations can mislead a well-trained DNN to produce false results. As DNNs are being deployed into security-sensitive applications such as autonomous driving, adversarial attacks may lead to catastrophic consequences.
Authored by Ehsan Atoofian
Neural Network Resiliency - Automatic modulation classification (AMC) using the Deep Neural Network (DNN) approach outperforms the traditional classification techniques, even in the presence of challenging wireless channel environments. However, the adversarial attacks cause the loss of accuracy for the DNN-based AMC by injecting a well-designed perturbation to the wireless channels. In this paper, we propose a novel generative adversarial network (GAN)-based countermeasure approach to safeguard the DNN-based AMC systems against adversarial attack examples. GAN-based aims to eliminate the adversarial attack examples before feeding to the DNN-based classifier. Specifically, we have shown the resiliency of our proposed defense GAN against the Fast-Gradient Sign method (FGSM) algorithm as one of the most potent kinds of attack algorithms to craft the perturbed signals. The existing defense-GAN has been designed for image classification and does not work in our case where the abovementioned communication system is considered. Thus, our proposed countermeasure approach deploys GANs with a mixture of generators to overcome the mode collapsing problem in a typical GAN facing radio signal classification problem. Simulation results show the effectiveness of our proposed defense GAN so that it could enhance the accuracy of the DNN-based AMC under adversarial attacks to 81\%, approximately.
Authored by Eyad Shtaiwi, Ahmed Ouadrhiri, Majid Moradikia, Salma Sultana, Ahmed Abdelhadi, Zhu Han
Neural Network Resiliency - With the proliferation of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) spacecraft constellations, comes the rise of space-based wireless cognitive communications systems (CCS) and the need to safeguard and protect data against potential hostiles to maintain widespread communications for enabling science, military and commercial services. For example, known adversaries are using advanced persistent threats (APT) or highly progressive intrusion mechanisms to target high priority wireless space communication systems. Specialized threats continue to evolve with the advent of machine learning and artificial intelligence, where computer systems inherently can identify system vulnerabilities expeditiously over naive human threat actors due to increased processing resources and unbiased pattern recognition. This paper presents a disruptive abuse case for an APT-attack on such a CCS and describes a trade-off analysis that was performed to evaluate a variety of machine learning techniques that could aid in the rapid detection and mitigation of an APT-attack. The trade results indicate that with the employment of neural networks, the CCS s resiliency would increase its operational functionality, and therefore, on-demand communication services reliability would increase. Further, modelling, simulation, and analysis (MS\&A) was achieved using the Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) Cup 1999 data set as a means to validate a subset of the trade study results against Training Time and Number of Parameters selection criteria. Training and cross-validation learning curves were computed to model the learning performance over time to yield a reasonable conclusion about the application of neural networks.
Authored by Suzanna LaMar, Jordan Gosselin, Lisa Happel, Anura Jayasumana
Neural Network Resiliency - The globalization of the Integrated Circuit (IC) market is attracting an ever-growing number of partners, while remarkably lengthening the supply chain. Thereby, security concerns, such as those imposed by functional Reverse Engineering (RE), have become quintessential. RE leads to disclosure of confidential information to competitors, potentially enabling the theft of intellectual property. Traditional functional RE methods analyze a given gate-level netlist through employing pattern matching towards reconstructing the underlying basic blocks, and hence, reverse engineer the circuit’s function.
Authored by Tim Bücher, Lilas Alrahis, Guilherme Paim, Sergio Bampi, Ozgur Sinanoglu, Hussam Amrouch