Title: Securing Supply Chains with AI and Attack Mitigation
Abstract: Supply Chains are examples of the Internet of Things (IoT). They must meet stringent Security and Quality of Service (QoS) requirements, offering cyberattack protection with fast response and minimal loss of benign data, and it is vital to protect these systems with accurate Attack Detection (AD) and Mitigation mechanisms which will be presented to demonstrate online and federated learning techniques that accurately detect attacks across a single or multiple nodes. Since measurements of packet floods that convey a cyberattack also impair the QoS of IoT systems and impede their capability to carry out AD, the novel traffic shaping method QDTP will be shown to ensure that an IoT node can still conduct AD during an attack. A new Adaptive Attack Mitigation (AAM) system that samples the incoming packet stream, determines whether an attack is ongoing, dynamically drops packets at the input to reduce the effects of the attack, and minimizes the AD overhead and the cost of lost data to attack mitigation across a supply chain.
Speaker's bio: Erol Gelenbe graduated from METU (Ankara), received his PhD from the Tandon School of Engineering, New York University, and the State Doctorate in Mathematical Sciences from the Sorbonne (Paris). An expert on System and Network Performance, Cybersecurity and AI, he proved basic mathematical performance results on page fault rates, random access channels, multi-path communications, and optimum database checkpoints, and was active in the development of commercial performance tools such as QNAP2 and Flexsim. He invented G-Networks with product form solutions, and the Random Neural Network and its Learning Algorithms. An elected Fellow of ACM, IEEE and other professional societies, he is a Professor at the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics, Polish Academy of Sciences after retiring from Imperial College. He graduated over 90 PhDs and was awarded «Honoris Causa» Doctorates from Bogaziçi University (Istanbul), the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Liège University (Belgium), and Roma II University (Italy). He was awarded the honours of Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur, Commander of Merit of France and Italy, Commander of the Order of the Crown of Belgium, and Officer of the Order of Merit of Poland. A Fellow of the National Academy of Technologies of France, of the Science Academies of Belgium, Poland and Turkey, Honorary Fellow of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Budapest), he Chairs the Informatics Section of Academia Europaea. He won the ACM SIGMETRICS Lifetime Award, the Mustafa Prize, the Grand Prix France-Télécom of the French Science Academy, the IET Innovation Award (Oliver Lodge Medal), and other prizes.
