Russian Academy of Sciences St. Scientists from the St. Petersburg Federal Research Center (SPb FRC RAS) have created a program based on artificial intelligence methods that ensures cybersecurity of automatic water purification monitoring systems at industrial enterprises and municipal municipal services. This issue was reported to socialbites.ca by the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. It was described at the St. Petersburg Federal Research Center. The project was supported by a grant from the Russian Science Foundation.
In recent years, water treatment and purification infrastructure has been actively automated, for example, remote access to control and monitoring systems has appeared. This creates the possibility of cybercriminals committing cyber attacks. Therefore, identifying various violations in the operation of automatic water purification systems is an important task that will help take timely measures and ensure public health safety.
“Using artificial intelligence methods, we have developed a program that allows us to monitor violations in the automatic systems of water treatment plants. Russian Academy of Sciences St. “First of all, such abnormal activities are associated with the implementation of various cyber attack scenarios,” Elena Fedorchenko, senior researcher at the Laboratory of Computer Security Problems of the St. Petersburg Federal Research Center, told socialbites.ca. .
The program is based on an artificial neural network that can distinguish normal operation of water treatment plants from their operation in conditions of cyber attack, based on the parameters of signals from automatic system sensors.
To “train” the program, scientists developed the first stand in Russia for collecting and monitoring data from water treatment plants operating in normal mode and under conditions of cyber attack. It can be adapted to the water treatment and wastewater systems of various organizations.
“Thanks to the use of this stand, we can train a neural network to detect various types of cyber attacks and at the same time provide protection measures during the implementation of automation systems. “Our development will find application in institutions and companies that purify water during their activities, such as industrial enterprises or city water utilities,” Fedorchenko concluded.
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