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Airbus launches £1.2M cyber research project at InfoSec 2014
April 2014 by Emmanuelle Lamandé
Airbus Group will highlight this week at the InfoSecurity Europe conference and exhibition its range of technologies, services and a cutting edge research project to help governments and industry deal with the increasingly complex and unpredictable nature of cyber attacks.
Debuting in the UK details of a £1.2M SCADA research project will be disclosed, which is aiming to understand and mitigate the vulnerabilities in the industrial control systems that drive Critical National Infrastructures (CNI) such as gas, water, transportation networks and banking systems.
The three-year project is a collaboration between the Airbus Group Innovations research centre, the EADS Foundation Wales, three universities and the Welsh Government. A robotic arm production demonstration will highlight the potential weaknesses in industrial control systems and showcase some of the cyber security mechanisms that can be used to prevent potentially disastrous implications of a cyber attack on UK Critical National Infrastructure.
Advanced Cyber security capabilities including the innovative Cyber Defence Centre services will also be an important part of the Airbus Defence and Space offering this year. Cyber Defence Centre gathers tools and expertise to watch, detect and investigate cyber attacks. Airbus Defence and Space expert services include supervision of IT security, early detection of attacks, investigation, remediation and 24/7 anticipation of advanced cyber attacks.
