Critical Infrastructure - CCIS
Research group
Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience
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CISaR’s mission is to support the private and public sector in their preparedness for and response to security incidents that involve the critical infrastructures of Norway, at the regional and national level, by means of knowledge and capacity building through research, education, and training. Critical infrastructure is an asset or system which is essential for the maintenance of vital societal functions (Banking and Finance; Food Supply; Health Services, Social Services and Social Security Benefit; Police; Emergency and Rescue Services; Crisis Management; Parliament and Government; The Judiciary; Defense; Environmental Surveillance; Waste Treatment). In Norway, Communication networks; electric power; water and wastewater; transportation; oil and gas infrastructure; and satellite communications are defined as critical infrastructure. The security and resilience of national infrastructure has become a part of national security and critical information infrastructure security and resilience has emerged as a field of great interest for research in cyber security.
Know us better
Our research activity is organised around the following research projects.
Current Projects
- ELECTRON - rEsilient and seLf-healed EleCTRical pOwer Nanogrid -- EU funded
- Norwegian Cyber Range
- RECYCIN - Reinforcing Competence in Cybersecurity of Critical Infrastructures -- National funding
- Reverse Engineering for verification of security in digital value chains in a critical infrastructure
- ENFIELD - European Lighthouse to Manifest Trustworthy and Green AI -- EU funded
- CERTIFAI - Agile conformance assessment for cybersecurity CERTIFication enhanced by Artificial Intelligence -- EU funded
- CYBERUNITY - Community for Integrating and Opening Cyber Range Infrastructures that Build an Interoperable Cross-Domain and Cross-Sector Cyber Range Federation
- BRUA - National Coordination Centre on Cybersecurity – Norway
- CYCLE - CYberseCurityLEarning: Master’s degree in Cybersecurity -- EU funded
- CORESIM- Context-Based Real-Time OT-IT Systems Integrity Management -- National funded
- CybAlliance - International Alliance for Strengthening Cybersecurity and Privacy in Healthcare -- National funded
- CIRMAN - Circular Manufacturing research and educational collaboration with India and Japan -- National funded
- PowerDig - Digitalization of short-term resource allocation in power markets -- National funded
- COMFORTAGE - Prediction, Monitoring and Personalized Recommendations for Prevention and Relief of Dementia and Frailty
- cPAID: Cloud-based Platform-agnostic Adversarial aI Defence framework
- CRESCENDO: Cyber preparedness and RESilienCe of the Energy sector in the NorDic region
- FACT: Federated Advanced Cyber physical Test range
- NEWSROOM: Adapting Cyber Awareness for Evolving Computing Environments
- Nemonoor: en nasjonal hub for kunstig intelligens. European Digital Innovation Hub.
- Norway-India: Strengthening Institutional Partnerships for Advancing Smart City Security and Resilience through AI-driven Digital Forensic (UTFORSK project)
- Cybersecurity for Critical Infrastructures (UTFORSK project)
Completed Projects
- GHOST - Safe-Guarding Home IoT Environments with Personalised Real-time Risk Control
- Future tamper-proof Demand rEsponse framework through seLf-configured, self-opTimized and collAborative virtual distributed energy nodes
- Cyber Power Praxis
- Security of the Cyber-Enabled Ship
- Cyber Security Network of Competence Centres for Europe
- LOCARD - Lawful evidence collecting and continuity platform development
- SDN - microgrid reSilient Electrical eNergy SystEm
- Security of the Autoferry
- Maritime Cyber Resilience
- Cyber Security with Industry 4.0 Technology
- Cyber Physical Security in Energy Infrastructure of Smart Cities
- RELINK
- Cybersecurity Platform for Assessment and Training for Critical Infrastructures, Legacy to Digital
- SAINTGrid
- ARMOR
- Cyber Safe Manufacturing
- Positive City ExChange
For more information about the research projects contact Prof. Sokratis Katsikas (sokratis.katsikas@ntnu.no)
Research and business partners associated with our research group.
Research partners
Within these projects and other educational and research activities the CISaR group maintains strategic partnerships with more than 200 organizations, both nationally and internationally, from academia, government, and industry.
We aim to disseminate our research results to the scientific community through scientific publications. We publish at the highest international level.
The CISaR group works towards the establishment and continuous development of a Cyber-physical systems security Lab in collaboration with the Norwegian Cyber Range, MANULAB, the National Smart Grid Laboratory, and other key stakeholders.
We supervise BSc and MSc thesis topics in the following areas:
- Cyber physical systems security
- Critical Infrastructure security
- Network security
- Autonomous systems security
- Security Awareness
Our master students have a skill set that results in them having little difficulty in getting employed in Gjøvik, the rest of Norway, or abroad.
Conferences & Workshops
- 39th International Conference on ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection (SEC 2024)
- 2024 International Conference on Information and Communications Security (ICICS 2024)
Journals & Special Issues
