Projects

iReduce

Start date: 01-01-2025

End date: 31-12-2026

Category:

  • Research

The immense flood of messages that is constantly triggered by monitoring and control technologies (aka operational technology, OT) in critical infrastructures (KRITIS) represents a central challenge for secure operations. These challenges are intensified by KRITIS-inherent characteristics such as heterogeneity, decentralization and evolution. As interdependencies between OT objects and their semantics are neither known nor machine-processable, it is impossible to intelligently process the flood of alarms and subsequently reduce them.

In the “iReduce” project, basic technologies for the exploration of semantic OT interdependencies are being realized, which form the core building block for intelligent alarm management in KRITIS and thus enable continuous and dynamic alarm flood reduction. As a central result, functional core components are implemented as practical show cases for the KRITIS domain of traffic monitoring and control.

Publications

W. Schwinger, E. Kapsammer, W. Retschitzegger, B. Pröll, D. Graf, N. Baumgartner, V. Plöckinger and J. Schönböck,"»Relationships are Key« A Semantic Relationship Awareness Framework for Operational Technology Monitoring",SN COMPUTER SCIENCE,vol. 5,no. 769,2024,doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s42979-024-03071-1.

W. Retschitzegger, W. Schwinger, E. Kapsammer, B. Pröll, A. Höbart, H. Zaunmair, J. Schönböck, D. Graf and M. Lechner,"Alert Flood Reduction in Large-Scale Control Systems - A Hybrid Pattern Mining-based Approach",in Proceedings of 7th International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Systems,2024.

D. Graf, W. Schwinger, W. Retschitzegger, E. Kapsammer, N. Baumgartner, B. Pröll and J. Schönböck,"Digital Shadows for Operational Technology Monitoring - A Comparison of Data-Driven Approaches",in Proceedings of the 57th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences,2024.

W. Schwinger, E. Kapsammer, W. Retschitzegger, B. Pröll, D. Graf, N. Baumgartner, J. Schönböck and H. Zaunmair,"Towards Automating Semantic Relationship Awareness in Operational Technology Monitoring",in Future Data and Security Engineering. Big Data, Security and Privacy, Smart City and Industry 4.0 Applications - 10th International Conference, FDSE 2023, Da Nang, Vietnam, November 22-24, 2023, Proceedings.,2023,pp. 545-555.

Project lead

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Johannes Schönböck

Members

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Mirjam Augstein

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Josef Altmann

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Ulrich Bodenhofer

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Gabriel Kronberger

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