CYbeR secUrity teSting

CYRUS is a collaborative industrial research project led by AISIN, ALSTOM, ALX, CETIC, GUARDIS, and UCLOUVAIN. Its objective is to define and develop a cybersecurity test platform demonstrator for industrial cyber-physical systems, with a particular emphasis for critical systems in terms of operational safety. The project is motivated by the growing connectivity (5G soon) of these industrial systems, which makes them more vulnerable to threats of cyberattacks. It is the first phase of a large-scale project to establish a cybersecurity test laboratory dedicated to this type of system in a variety of industrial fields. Cyber-physical systems (CPS) present specific challenges in terms of cybersecurity compared to traditional IT systems, due to their unique characteristics: * combination of inter-connected physical components, networks and software, * distributed and heterogeneous nature, from a technological point of view and in terms of available resources, of these various communication components, protocols and technologies (wired, wireless, sometimes non-standard/proprietary) * real-time operation with interactions on the physical world inducing strong constraints in terms of operational safety. The CYRUS project aims to define a security test procedure and architecture as well as to select, integrate and implement appropriate test tools for this architecture which will allow as much automation and repeatability of test activities as possible. The platform will allow the realization of several types of tests: functional security tests, fuzzing tests, penetration tests. It will be validated on three case studies of connected industrial systems provided by the partners, in different fields of application rail, automotive and UAV.