The Next Frontline: Resilience of Critical Infrastructures in the Age of AI and Global Tensions

10 Oct 2025
event, cybersecurity, Brittany

The Naval Cyber and the CNI Cyber Chairs are once again offering a joint session during the next edition of European Cyber Week, on Thursday 20 November from 9:00 am to 12:00 am.

As AI-driven threats escalate and global tensions mount, Europe’s critical infrastructures—spanning energy, mobility, defense, and maritime systems—face an evolving and complex risk landscape. Ensuring their resilience is not just a technical challenge, but a strategic imperative.

This session brings together leading researchers from the industrial chairs Cyber CNI and Cyber Naval to share the latest scientific findings and technological innovations aimed at securing critical infrastructures on land and at sea. While not focused on operational response, our research offers high-value insights that help identify future threat patterns, shape resilient system architectures, and steer innovation in the right direction—before vulnerabilities become crises.We will present research-driven scenarios and technology evaluations across diverse domains: power grids, public transport, military systems, vessels, and ports. Attendees will gain a first look at next-generation user interfaces, digital twin applications, cross-layer anomaly detection, distributed defense approaches, honeynets, and techniques to detect and counter disinformation. This session is a must for those looking to understand where the future of critical infrastructure security is heading—through the lens of rigorous research and proactive innovation.

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Morning programme
Session 1 – Defending Against Emerging Threats

Challenge 1 – Anticipating and Deceiving Adversaries

  • Intro: Deception, simulation, and adversarial maneuvers as frontline defenses
  • Mathis Durand (cand. PhD CNI) – Realistic Deception Infrastructures: Honeynets
  • Pierre-Louis Goudet (cand. PhD Naval) – Adversarial Attacks in Network Security

Challenge 2 – Building Secure Architectures of the Future

  • Intro: From decentralized defense to resilient supply chains and embedded security
  • Luc Bournaud (cand. PhD CNI) – Fully Decentralized Attack–Defense
  • Luis Soeiro (cand. PhD CNI) – Software Bill of Materials & Dependency Risks
  • Pierre Garreau (cand. PhD Naval) – Efficient AI Inference on Ultra-Low-Power Embedded Clusters
  • Moderated discussion
Session 2 – AI, Human Trust & the Next Frontier

Challenge 3 – Securing AI in the Age of Adversaries

  • Intro: AI as both a weapon and a shield in cybersecurity
  • Gabriel Dumont (cand. PhD Naval) – Hybrid AI for Risk Prevention
  • Alexandre Azor (cand. PhD Naval) – Data Poisoning in AI-based IDS
  • Hugo Bourreau (cand. PhD CNI) – Digital Twins for Cybersecurity

Challenge 4 – Human Factors, Disinformation & Quantum Horizons

  • Intro: Trust, perception, and the post-cryptographic future
  • Fabien Eyssartier (Ingénieur CNI CyberSecDome) – XR/VR Interfaces for Situational Awareness
  • Elie Chedemail (PostDoc CNI) – Disinformation as a New AI-Enabled Weapon
  • Iain Burge (cand. PhD CNI) – Quantum Computing for Cybersecurity beyond Cryptography
Closing warm-up
Pratical information and registration

Date: November 20, 2025 Time: 09:00 – 12:00 Session organized by: • The Cybersecurity for Critical Networked Infrastructures – Cyber CNI Chair, directed by Prof. Marc-Oliver Pahl • The Cybersecurity for Naval Systems – Cyber Naval Chair, directed by Prof. David Brosset

Website of the event : https://www.european-cyber-week.eu/

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