Involved PIs: Patricia Arias Cabarcos, Jürgen Beyerer (Spokesperson), Marcus Wiens

Active Researchers: Maximilian Becker, Pascal Birnstill, Matin Fallahi, Florian Kaiser, Paul Wagner, Tim Zander

Interactive assistance plays an increasingly important role in many modern production processes. Since these systems acquire and process information about human workers to assist them in their tasks, designing assistance systems to be privacy-friendly and secure is a major concern. The goal of this Research Area is to develop interactive manufacturing assistance systems that are both transparent – in the sense of being comprehensible for their users, but also in the sense of data protection duties of operators – as well as trustworthy – in the sense of being privacy-friendly and comprehensibly secure. We focus our research on assistance systems for manual assembly and quality assurance use cases.

Involved PIs: Jürgen Beyerer, Marcus Wiens, Christian Wressnegger

Active Researchers: Anne Borcherding, Mark Giraud, Christian Haas, Yilin Ji, Qi Lei, Ankush Meshram, Maximilian Noppel, Laura Tzigiannis, Jonas Vogl

An essential part of securing production facilities is to secure the industrial devices and the industrial network of such facilities. Cybersecurity in industrial production has to take into account specific basic conditions which are not as relevant in an office environment, in the case of PC workstations or Internet servers. The control of production plants is associated with real-time requirements which make it difficult or even impossible to modify the systems. For this reason, new strategies and methods have to be found for production environments to ensure IT security in practice, not only in new systems, but also in existing installations, above all.

Industrial networks are the target-center of recent Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs). We aim to develop an industrial cybersecurity platform with KASTEL Proof-of-Concept (PoC) Demonstrator to address Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) for Industrial Control Systems (ICS). Threat behaviors need to be modeled succinctly for efficient threat detection performance and design appropriate automated mitigation playbooks.