T-Sar

In transport infrastructures, vessel traffic services, air traffic management, and connected cars all rely on unauthenticated and unencrypted messages transfer that renders these services vulnerable to cyberattacks. Typical attacks such as False Data Injection Attacks (FDIA) are challenging to detect as they alter the semantics of the data (e.g., by adding/removing/multiplying elements on real-time control equipment), while preserving the syntactical correctness of the messages. Identifying these attacks and classifying them as serious threats or unintentional false data has become a significant challenge of traffic monitoring authorities.

The TSAR project aims at demonstrating that recent advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be leveraged in the automatic detection of FDIA in transport infrastructures. By combining realistic threat data generation based on constraint-based software testing techniques and automatic detection with deep reinforcement learning, TSAR will propose a new technology for automatic FDIA generation and detection. This technology will be empirically evaluated with end-users from the maritime domain and with open and accessible data in two other domains, namely air traffic control, and connected cars. By leveraging automatic detection of FDIA in traffic management systems, TSAR will also prepare the ground for the upcoming revolution in traffic management, which concerns, self-driving vessels, self-driving aircraft, and self-driving cars.