"AI Enhanced Design to Counter Threats to Critical Infrastructure and Military Electronics"
Dr. Basel Halak of the Cyber Security Research Group at the University of Southampton will improve the security of anti-tamper embedded devices in a new Royal Academy of Engineering Industrial Fellowship. Embedded systems have become popular targets for hacking, with smart devices vulnerable to being taken over and controlled by malicious actors. Dr. Halak emphasizes that the compromise of hardware products poses significant threats if they are used in critical infrastructure and military applications. The ever-evolving security threat landscape calls for effective and adaptive defense solutions. This fellowship aims to develop responsive and adaptive defense mechanisms to combat security threats to critical infrastructure and military electronics. The mechanism will be developed using Machine Mearning (ML) algorithms to rapidly detect malicious behaviors exhibited by embedded systems and increase the speed at which a potential attack is stopped. This article continues to discuss the Industrial Fellowship awarded to Dr. Halak to develop a mechanism that will strengthen the security of anti-tamper embedded devices.