SECUTIL

Integrated security chain management system to improve physical security, access control, and cybersecurity in networks and infrastructures involved in the management of utilities resources (service-providing infrastructures).

During the SECUTIL project, cryptographic solutions will be implemented to ensure the security and privacy of personal data throughout the entire service and technology cycle, thus reducing the risk window of information systems in critical infrastructures. Furthermore, decision support simulation tools will be designed and implemented for the critical infrastructure security management team, and new models for system and infrastructure security will be researched.

One of the most notable aspects of the project is the research and development of tools and solutions based on artificial intelligence technologies with the aim of predicting, protecting, mitigating, and defending against the new wave of cyberattacks that are currently emerging and those that will appear in the near future.

Among the results of the project will be more advanced and intelligent algorithms and models for architecture and autonomous cybersecurity in cyber-physical systems, essential solutions to protect the new infrastructure and service models.

SECUTIL is a project of the RIS3CAT Utilities 4.0 Community coordinated by the IT Security Unit of Eurecat, with the participation of Naturgy, Retevisión, the Water Technological Center, CS2AC from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, the University of Lleida, and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. The Community’s objective is to transform the utilities sector by identifying a set of tools and solutions that enable its digitalization towards the concept of utilities 4.0 and to create an industrial fabric through the development and application of these new solutions.

CS2AC participates by developing algorithms for detecting cyber-physical attacks as well as developing techniques that incorporate resilience against them. The detection techniques are based on introducing watermark-type signals that indicate if they have been altered by the attacker. Algorithms are also being developed to reconfigure the control algorithm once the attack has been detected and isolated using tolerant control techniques. All these techniques are being tested in different laboratory and real-world case studies proposed by the various companies participating in the project.