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
Unsupervised Linking of Unstructured Data Entities to a Knowledge Graph
ClassHeatVis: Interpretable Probabilistic Classification via Heatmap Visualization for AIS Radio Frequency Fingerprinting
A survey on versatile embedded Machine Learning hardware acceleration
News and events
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.
Unlock Your Brain features maritime topics and much more !
The Chair is supporting the westernmost cybersecurity event for its 10th edition, on November 7 & 8 in Brest.
Portrait of a graduate PhD #8: Douraid Naouar
New portrait in the series presenting our graduates with Douraid Naouar.