The subject of Cybersecurity skills and the relevant persisting gap1 has allowed a variety of cybersecurity courses and certification schemes to arise2. In each case, the certification scheme owners have decided upon an implementation method based on their experience, practice and beliefs. But which one is the most suitable for...

Cyberattacks determine a rising threat for governments, companies, and end-users. Beyond compromising individuals' security and privacy, malicious attackers can negatively impact the economic situation of businesses supported by digital systems. Within the landscape of cyberattacks, Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks remain one of the most dangerous threats to service providers worldwide....

The Corona crisis has impressively demonstrated the dependence of our modern society on ICT (information and communication technology). The major challenges in climate protection and health, currently especially about the COVID-19 pandemic, can only be solved or supported with trustworthy IT. As digitalization is developing exponentially, it is changing the...

We discuss new algorithms that we have developed to classify the traffic associated with multi-vector DDoS attacks. We have implemented the algorithms in the DDoS Clearing House, a system that enables operations teams across different organisations to collaboratively. Thus prepare for DDoS attacks by automatically sharing DDoS characteristics in the...

DNS is one of the core components of the Internet infrastructure, but like any other service on the Internet, DNS is also misused in a set of Cyber attacks, from DNS cache poisoning, to DNS hijacking, to Reflection and Amplification (R&A) DDoS attacks. In a DNS-based R&A DDoS attack, DNS...

To prevail in a situation of increasing incident numbers and sophistication of cyberattacks, it is important to share detailed information about current attacks. As detailed in a previous blog post [1], this task is performed by CONCORDIA's Threat Intelligence Platform consisting of the Incident Clearing House (ICH), a central MISP...

Unoccupied aerial systems (UASs) are receiving growing attention. Thanks to their affordability, their use has been proposed in many domains, including agriculture, oil, gas, electricity utilities, safety, disaster management, and goods transportation. This increased popularity brings new challenges for air traffic management (ATM) and air traffic control (ATC), which are...

COVID-19 has changed the way the world operates, the way we communicate, the mode of doing business and the functioning of governments resulting in an increased reliance over digital technologies and remote working[1]. One effect of this massive digital adoption was an increase in cyberattacks, which demonstrates the urgency and...