Distributed Personal Authentication Systems (DP AS)

Authentication systems, especially in forensic areas are essential towards this modern life nowadays. It is also giving human an opportunity to study and learn more about remote enviromnent. Besides that, this authentication technology also helps various fields to perform their special task that cannot be achieved by human. The use of smart authentication technology replacing an individual is a very exciting field to be explored. This project presents the use of the forensic application namely fingerprint recognition systems and how its automatic features help to perform its task using Digital Image Processing techniques and MATLAB coding. The objective of this project is to build a simple prototype of Distributed Personal Authentication Systems (DPAS) that can perform a basic recognition process, enhanced with the ability to send a signal to communication cable for further development in the tuture. The project undergoes several processes of designing and modifying before it reaches to the prototype state. As the result, the simulation was able to perform the authentication and recognition operation using simple programming language which is MA TLAB coding

Cybersecurity Awareness Platform with Virtual Coach and Automated Challenge Assessment

Over the last years, the number of cyber-attacks on industrial control systems has been steadily increasing. Among several factors, proper software development plays a vital role in keeping these systems secure. To achieve secure software, developers need to be aware of secure coding guidelines and secure coding best practices. This work presents a platform geared towards software developers in the industry that aims to increase awareness of secure software development. The authors also introduce an interactive game component, a virtual coach, which implements a simple artificial intelligence engine based on the laddering technique for interviews. Through a survey, a preliminary evaluation of the implemented artifact with real-world players (from academia and industry) shows a positive acceptance of the developed platform. Furthermore, the players agree that the platform is adequate for training their secure coding skills. The impact of our work is to introduce a new automatic challenge evaluation method together with a virtual coach to improve existing cybersecurity awareness training programs. These training workshops can be easily held remotely or off-line.Comment: Preprint accepted for publication at the 6th Workshop On The Security Of Industrial Control Systems & Of Cyber-Physical Systems (CyberICPS 2020