Cyber Resilience

Research Staff

  • Professor Youki Kadobayashi

    Professor
    Youki KADOBAYASHI

  • Associate Professor Yuzo Taenaka

    Associate Professor
    Yuzo TAENAKA

Affiliate Professor Hiroyuki INOUE

Affiliate Professor Daisuke MIYAMOTO

Affiliate Professor Kazuma KOBAYASHI
E-mail youki-k@is.naist.jp
yuzo@is.naist.jp
To the site https://iplab.naist.jp/

Research Areas

Our laboratory engages in education and research for cyber resilience. We focus on empirical researches for improving resilience over the physical and cyber spaces, and technology of transfer into the real world. Our research areas include cybersecurity, networks, and society. In the cybersecurity area, standardization, malware, phishing, and forensics are important keywords. In the network area, QoE-driven management, softwarization (SDN, NFV, etc.), IoT, and wireless networks (LPWA, WLAN, etc.) are hot topics. In the society area, education, human behavior against security, security interfaces, gamification, UAV (or drone) are active topics. These are only examples of what we do in order to improve resilience.

Fig.1 Evaluation of a Risk-Adaptive Authorization Mechanism

Fig.1 Evaluation of a Risk-Adaptive Authorization Mechanism

Fig.2 Malicious drone detection

Fig.2 Malicious drone detection

Fig.3 Immobile victim's message propagation among visible victims' device and delivery to the rescuer

Fig.3 Immobile victim's message propagation among visible victims' device and delivery to the rescuer

Fig.4 AUROC value from a pair of normal dataset – VMM-based Anomaly Detection System

Fig.4 AUROC value from a pair of normal dataset – VMM-based Anomaly Detection System

Towards making the Internet cyber-resilient

  • Information infrastructure attack prevention and mitigation techniques
  • Reliable communication over mobile networks
  • Trusted identity management for modern applications and services
  • Workload measurement and characterization
  • Construction and management of resilient infrastructures
  • Security risk assessment (cloud computing, IoT, etc.)
  • IPv6 transition and verification methodologies
  • Elastic mechanisms for efficient wireless/wired network management

Impacting society through cyber-resiliency

  • Critical infrastructures security and resiliency
  • Secure information distribution based on users’ situation
  • Gamification of cybersecurity
  • Privacy protection
  • Internet user experience quality improvement
  • Learning the effects of cyber-resiliency on humanity

Key Features

The Internet has evolved to become essential to, arguably, all fields of industry and academia. At its inception, the Internet was used for basic electronic communications where users stored, processed, and transferred small amounts of data. Currently, the Internet encompasses more advanced technologies like social networks, cloud computing, big data, Internet of Things (IoT), augmented and virtual reality, etc.; in summary, it is becoming the world economy. Simultaneous to the universality of the Internet and its rapid growth, cyber threats are augmenting and globally proliferating at an exponential rate. Additionally, cyber threats are conquering domains like industrial control systems (ICS) that were, until recently, bereft of any types of internet-related security issues. In the Laboratory for Cyber Resilience, our goal is to build an Internet that, while intrinsically vulnerable, can contain any types of cyber-attacks and use the heuristics of the latter to build robust, dependable and more resilient architectures in order to make the cyber platform an environment that promotes efficiency, innovation, economic prosperity, academic development, safety, security and civil liberties.