The Next Frontline: Resilience for Critical Infrastructures Amid AI and Global Tensions

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.