CRITICS 2025: Workshop on Cyber Resilience of IT/OT Infrastructures and Complex Systems

SystemX is organizing the CRITICS 2025 Workshop on Cyber Resilience of IT/OT Infrastructures and Complex Systems, at Nano-INNOV (Palaiseau), on April 30, 2025.

The increase in competitiveness leads to a race to digitization. Critical infrastructures become highly connected to the cyber world. This is especially true for Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs), which combine hardware and software components. However, these complex systems remain vulnerable to cyber attacks. Resilience applied to CPSs aims at protecting these critical systems from cyber adversaries in order to ensure the completion of there missions. However, new questions arise with the arrival of quantum technology. Do the countermeasures and protection mechanisms used for resilience remain valid in the face of an adversary with quantum resources?

Program

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Organizers

Romain Dagnas (Research-engineer and PhD student, Palaiseau, IRT SystemX)
Romain Dagnas received the License degree in mathematics, computer sciences, and physical sciences from the Faculté des Sciences et Techniques de Limoges, France, in 2017, the master diploma degree in computer sciences from 3iL Ingénieurs, France, in 2019, and the master diploma degree in mathematics, cryptology, application coding from CRYPTIS, Faculté des Sciences et Techniques de Limoges, France, in 2019. He is currently a Research-Engineer of the Network and Cybersecurity team at the Technological Research Institute (IRT) SystemX, Palaiseau, France. He works on the PFS project (Ports du Futur Sécurisés), and he is the holder of an exploratory research project launched by SystemX on quantifying the resilience of critical infrastructures. He is currently doing a PhD on the resilience of complex systems.

Michel Barbeau (Professor and Interim Director, School of Computer Science, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada)

Dr. Barbeau received both his Master’s and Ph.D. from Universite de Montreal. He then returned to Universite de Sherbrooke, where he had completed his undergraduate degree in Computer Science in 1985, to join the faculty as a professor. Teaching at Universite de Sherbrooke from 1991 to 1999, Dr. Barbeau spent his last academic year as a visiting researcher at the University of Aizu, Japan. He joined the School of Computer Science at Carleton University in 2000. Dr. Barbeau’s research specializes in non classical wireless networks. His current research has involved developing an acoustic network for underwater communication to aid in water based surveillance in areas ranging from coastal navigation to environmental monitoring. Working alongside a team of undergraduate, master’s and doctoral students, Dr. Barbeau is testing ways to use mechanical vibrations to send encoded messages between underwater nodes. His team has worked to find ways to deal with challenges like multipath propagation of underwater acoustic waves – when signals are received by more than one path – influenced by reflection at sea surface and seabed, and refraction due to factors like water temperature, depth and surface waves, among other. His team tested their prototype in Ottawa’s Rideau Canal.

Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro (Professor, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Télécom SudParis, Palaiseau, France)
Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro is Professor of Cybersecurity at Institut Polytechnique de Paris (Palaiseau, France), Adjunct Research Professor at Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada) and head of the SCN (Sécurité and Confiance Num\’erique) research team of the SAMOVAR laboratory at Télécom SudParis (Institut Mines-Télécom). His research interests include a wide range of information security problems, with an emphasis on the management of security policies, analysis of vulnerabilities, and enforcement of countermeasures. He holds a double Ph.D. diploma in Computer Science from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and the University of Rennes, and a research Habilitation from Université Sorbonne VI (Pierre et Marie Curie). He is involved in several research projects at National and European levels, related to cybersecurity.

Reda Yaich (Senior researcher, lead  cybersecurity and networks team, IRT SystemX)
Reda Yaich is a senior researcher and Cyberseurity Team Leader at IRT SystemX. Reda holds as Phd in Computer Science from the ENS Mines of Saint-Etienne with a focus on Trust Management using Artificial Intelligence technologies. He served as lecturer and/or research assistant in several universities (e.g. University of Saint-Etienne, University of Lyon) and engineering schools (ENS Mines Saint-Etienne, Telecom Bretagne, IMT Atlantique, ENSIBS, Telecom SudParis).  Reda has several publications in journals and conferences related to Decentralised Access authorisation and Digital Trust Management. He has also participated in numerous national (e.g. ANR FAROS, PIA IDOLE, Web Intelligence, WinPIC, etc.) and European projects (e.g. H2020 SeCoIIA, H2020 SUPERCLOUD, COST Action AT).

 

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