Research at the Naval Systems Cyber Defense Chair
The École Navale, Naval Group, THALES, IMT Atlantique, and ENSTA Bretagne have a twenty-year tradition of scientific exchanges and collaborations in the fields of naval systems, information systems, and telecommunications.
Our scientific topics focus on:
the protection of sensitive onboard information,
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the analysis of the reliability and integrity of information collected by sensors and then used by ship information systems.
13
PhD graduates
5
PhD students
15
research professors
10
engineers and experts
1 600
thesis pages written
Ongoing researches
Zero Trust Put to the Test of Connected OT: Defendability and Vulnerabilities.
This thesis aims to assess the effectiveness and defendability of data-centric Zero Trust architectures applied to connected industrial systems (OT).
Obfuscation of Human Activities in Encrypted Communications: Application to Maritime Industrial Networks
Objective: Develop advanced network obfuscation methods to enhance communication protection and the security of critical system-of-systems.
Hybrid Artificial Intelligence for Root Cause Analysis of Maritime Cyberattacks
The objective is to develop a tool whose application will study naval cyberattacks and contribute to improving the understanding of protection measures.
The Supervisory Team
The Chair is primarily a team of PhD students, research professors, and industrial experts working together.
Latest scientific publications
Mitigating Log Poisoning Attack against Anomaly-based Intrusion Detection System
Unsupervised Linking of Unstructured Data Entities to a Knowledge Graph
ClassHeatVis: Interpretable Probabilistic Classification via Heatmap Visualization for AIS Radio Frequency Fingerprinting
News and events
Looking back at the Scientific Day
The Chair's scientific day looked back on 12 years of research and the challenges for the future.
Scientific Day 2026
Save the date: the Chair's 2026 Scientific Day will take place on Thursday, September 24 in Rennes!
The Next Frontline: Resilience of Critical Infrastructures in the Age of AI and Global Tensions
The Naval Cyber and Cyber CNI chairs are joining forces once again to offer a joint session on Thursday, 20 November 2025 during European Cyber Week in Rennes.