Sectors and critical infrastructure

Rail, energy, automotive, public administration and other sectors.

Cybersecurity in smart cities

At the Allianz Smart City meetup in Dortmund, current projects were presented: a climate sensor network, smart waste management, digital pillars. Each of these systems collects data to run the city better, from air quality to bin collection. Ali Recai Yekta spoke about the cybersecurity of smart cities and how their digital resilience can be raised. Every sensor is a device on a network, and can be attacked.

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OT security · Ali Recai Yekta

Attacks on critical infrastructure: US water utilities in the crosshairs

At the end of July 2026 the FBI and the EPA issued a public warning (PSA I-073026). Since 27 July, water and wastewater utilities in at least seven US states have reported attacks, in some cases with operational effects. The targets were Rockwell/Allen-Bradley MicroLogix 1100 and 1400 controllers that were openly reachable from the internet. In parallel, more than 30 municipal water systems in Minnesota were attacked.

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Sectors and critical infrastructure · Ali Recai Yekta

Security Operations Center for Multi Modal Transport Systems

At the 17th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security in Vienna, Ali Recai Yekta presented our work on a Vehicle Security Operations Center for multi-modal transport systems.

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Yekta IT at the Nationale Konferenz IT-Sicherheitsforschung 2025

Sectors and critical infrastructure

Three and a half years of research into cybersecurity for road and rail

A rail vehicle runs for 30 to 40 years. The fleet that has to be secured is long since in service, and it cannot be swapped for secure new vehicles. Cars and trains today run software, are connected, and tie in external services. Attacks therefore have to be detected in the vehicles that exist, during operation, and without disturbing the safety-critical technology.

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Yekta IT at the Advanced Train Lab: cybersecurity for rail vehicles

Modern rail vehicles are connected systems with complex communication structures. That connectivity brings efficiency, and it opens new ways in. In the FINESSE project we work on this, and recently ran a workshop with test runs at the Advanced Train Lab (aTL) in Schreibenberg.

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Automotive cybersecurity: our demonstrator for hands-on vehicle security

The automotive industry has changed fundamentally: purely mechanical machines have become complex, connected computing platforms on wheels. An average new vehicle holds up to 150 electronic control units and more than 100 million lines of code, more than a modern airliner. Connectivity over CAN, Ethernet, Bluetooth, RFID, Wi-Fi and mobile networks opens up a great many new ways in.

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Sectors and critical infrastructure · Marco Gren

An introduction to the CAN bus: the basics and how it works

The Controller Area Network (CAN bus) is a message-based protocol built so that the electronic control units in a vehicle, and in other equipment, can communicate reliably and by priority. It lets a large number of control units talk to each other without a central computer and without wiring each one to every other. Bosch developed it in 1983, and it is still central today.

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YekTrain, probably the smallest hackable train in the world

OT security in rail: the YekTrain as a research platform. Rail is becoming more digital and more connected, which puts OT security at the centre of the work. Modern trains are complex networks in which mechanical components, electronic control and digital systems interact.

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Sectors and critical infrastructure · Marco Gren

Cybersecurity in automotive: the new threats

Automotive technology has moved a long way in recent years, from autonomous driving functions through to integration with the Internet of Things. That has changed driving, and it has brought new cybersecurity problems with it. This article looks at the current threats in the automotive industry.

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