Research
Overview
According to the Society 5.0 vision put forward by the Japanese government, the cyber and physical spaces will be tightly integrated to build the future human-centered society. Moreover, the Internet of Things (IoT) and Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) have already started to become an integral part of our daily life, leading to new challenges and issues. These complex conditions place strong requirements regarding the trustworthiness of Society 5.0, and the key research question that our lab is focusing on is: How to ensure that the future Society 5.0 is a safe and secure environment?
Research Directions
Our lab's research activity focuses on four main research directions that contribute in various manners to Society 5.0 trustworthiness.
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Cybersecurity The increase of cybersecurity threats in the current society makes it necessary to create new defense mechanisms that are dynamic and adaptive. We leverage modern techniques such as AI and machine learning to develop adaptive defense systems by extending the work on AI-based penetration testing that we have conducted in the past (see AutoPentest-DRL). This research direction also includes the experimental evaluation of end-to-end security and privacy mechanisms.
Experimental evaluation of end-to-end security
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IoT/CPS Security The security characteristics of IoT/CPS systems must be ensured by considering their computation resource constraints and the complexity of their System of Systems (SoS) nature. We are addressing these issues via design automation, and formal and experimental verification at the design stage, thus making it possible to fully meet the security by design requirement.
Automation and verification of IoT/CPS system design
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Trustworthiness Assurance The Society 5.0 challenges must be thoroughly considered from the perspective of the five components of trustworthiness: safety, security, privacy, reliability and resilience. For this purpose, we have envisioned an assurance framework that proposes an objective methodology to provide guarantees for all the five trustworthiness components.
Trustworthiness assurance for Society 5.0
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Security Education and Training The human factor is an important component of modern security, and we conduct research in the areas of technical security training, as well as awareness security training. One of the goals of this direction is extending the integrated cybersecurity training framework CyTrONE we developed to provide even more effective education and training capabilities.
Hands-on technical security training using cyber ranges
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Last modified: Fri Feb 04 15:18:10 JST 2022