Next SSL – Loria Security Seminar will take place on Tuesday, 21st January at 1pm in room A008.

Nils Ole Tippenhauer, researcher at CISPA, will talk about reversing and testing cyber-physical systems. 

Title: Reversing and Testing Cyber-Physical Systems

Abstract: Cyber-Physical Systems such as Industrial Control Systems, Drones, and Autonomous Vehicles rely on digital control of a physical process. Adversarial manipulation of such systems can result in physical damage to the system, or the environment. The underlying embedded systems run (often proprietary) firmware on bare metal, interacting with a range of peripherals. Security assessment of such systems by their operators, vendors, and attackers is challenging for various reasons. In this talk, I will go over some of those challenges, and discuss recent ongoing work in the direction of reversing, rehosting, and fuzzing of such systems.

Bio: Nils is a faculty at the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, heading the SCy-Phy research group. Prior to joining CISPA in 2018, he was an Assistant Professor at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). Nils earned his Dr. Sc. in Computer Science from ETH Zurich (Switzerland) in 2012.  His research is broadly on information security aspects of practical systems. In particular, he is am currently working on security of cyber-physical systems such as drones, vehicles, and industrial control systems.

Ahh the information about the seminar is on the SSL website.