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During the Singapore Maritime Week (SMW) 2024, the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) signed into two memorandum of understanding (MoU)s with SUTD. Both MOUs were signed on the 16 April 2024 in the presence of Dr Amy Khor, Senior Minister of State, Ministry of Transport and Ministry of Sustainability and the Environment. 

The first MoU involves MPA, Tallinn University of […]

After a year-long study, the first edition of the “Guidelines for Cyber Risk Management in Autonomous Shipping” is published and available for download here. This work is carried out by iTrust and funded by Singapore Maritime Institute (SMI) under the grant number SMI-2022-MTP-05.

A previously published “Guidelines for Cyber Risk Management in Shipboard OT Systems” can also be downloaded here.

5Ghoul is a described as “a family of implementation-level 5G vulnerabilities”, or a collection of CVEs (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) present in the firmware implementation of 5G mobile network modems from major chipset vendors Qualcomm and MediaTek. NSoE Phase II’s IoT sector lead Assistant Prof Sudipta Chattopadhyay’s team discovered 14 vulnerabilities n the chipsets, of which 12 were new. Of the […]

A paper titled “SePanner: Analyzing Semantics of Controller Variables in Industrial Control Systems based on Network Traffic,” co-authored by Jie Meng, Zhenyong Zhang, Yangyang Geng, Ruilong Deng, Peng Cheng, Jiming Chen and iTrust Centre Director Jianying Zhou received the distinguished paper award at the 39th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference. Congratulations to all!

iTrust has been awarded the Best Paper Award at ACM CPSS’23 (The 9th ACM Cyber-Physical System Security Workshop), Co-located with ACM AsiaCCS 2023.
Paper title:  PAID: Perturbed Image Attacks Analysis and Intrusion Detection Mechanism for Autonomous Driving Systems. 
Presented by: Ko Zheng Teng, Trupil Limbasiya, Federico Turrin, Yan Lin Aung, Sudipta Chattopadhyay, Jianying Zhou, and Mauro Conti

iTrust SUTD and ClassNK – Nippon Kaiji Kyokai inked a Memorandum of Understanding on 18 Oct 2022 to collaborate in three important maritime cyber security areas: R&D, risk management and training. These activities will be supported by the upcoming MariOT testbed. iTrust looks forward to learning from and working with ClassNK!

iTrust has been awarded S$4.77M by the Singapore Maritime Institute (SMI) to develop a Maritime Testbed of Shipboard Operational Technology (MariOT) system, in collaboration with the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) and Singapore Polytechnic’s Centre of Excellence in Maritime Safety (CEMS). The award was presented to SUTD at the SMI Forum on 11 October 2022, with iTrust’s Centre Director Professor Aditya […]

iTrust proud to be selected by Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA) as the anchor research centre to host the CSA-iTrust Master of Science in Security by Design Scholarship (CiMS) Programme. This programme was announced by Mrs Josephine Teo, Minister for Communications and Information and Minister-in-charge of Smart Nation and Cybersecurity, at the Operational Technology Cybersecurity Expert Panel (OTCEP) Forum 2022.

CSA […]

After a year-long study, the first edition of the “Guidelines for Cyber Risk Management in Shipboard Operational Technology Systems” is published and available for download here. This work is carried out by iTrust and funded by Singapore Maritime Institute (SMI) under the grant number SMI-2020-MA-04. The team would like to thank the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) for its guidance […]

Prof Jianying Zhou and Senior RA Priyanga Rajaram carried out a cyber risk management study in shipboard OT systems, and developed a set of guidelines on amalgamated “best practices” for maritime authorities and shipping lines. The first version of guidelines can be downloaded here.