Security and Privacy in Industrial Cooperation

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Security and Privacy in Industrial Cooperation Group (Oct. 2023)

Welcome to the Security and Privacy in Industrial Cooperation (SPICe) group. We are part of the Department of Computer Science at RWTH Aachen University. Led by Prof. Martin Henze, we work on making all aspects of industrial cooperation secure and privacy-preserving. To this end, our research and teaching centers around all technical security and privacy aspects of industrial networks and industrial data sharing, especially concerning production systems and power grids. Our group has been established to strengthen the security aspects of the cluster of excellence Internet of Production. Recently, we are especially focusing on securing industrial communication in modern 5G/6G networks.

If you are interested in learning more about our work, we invite you to register to the spice-info mailing list, which is used to inform about student talks as well as other talks and events (co-)organized by our group.

News

2025-02 Our paper on multicast source authentication for CAN bus communication has been accepted at IEEE EuroS&P 2025!
2025-02 We are extremely proud of our student Laurenz who was awarded the ICT Young Researcher Award 2024! After 2022 (Antoine) and 2023 (Olav), this marks a hat-trick for our awesome SPICe students!
2025-01 Excited to share that our paper on generalizable and comprehensible industrial intrusion detection was accepted at USENIX Security 2025!
2024-12 Our paper on (secure) 5G integration in industrial settings has been accepted for publication in Future Generation Computer Systems!
2024-11 We are excited to welcome Nitesh Goyal from Google/DeepMind for an invited talk on leveraging AI responsibly in sensemaking.
2024-11 Funding for our new project on secure mission-critical communication for public safety organizations and critical infrastructure has been granted funding! More details will follow soon.
2024-08 Our paper on detecting evasions of SIEM rules was awarded a Distinguished Artifact Award at USENIX Security 2024!
2024-07 We have finished moving to our new temporary location, you will now find us at Im Süsterfeld 9, 52072 Aachen.
2024-07 We are currently in the process of moving to our new temporary location (Im Süsterfeld 9, 52072 Aachen). Expect significant difficulties and delays in communicating with us. Our old rooms will not be accessible to visitors starting Thursday, July 25. We hope to be back in operation in our new rooms in early August. Stay tuned for updates.
2024-06 Our new project on cyber security for flexible and interconnected industry has been granted funding! Stay tuned for more information.

Selected recent publications

  1. USENIX Sec
    GeCos Replacing Experts: Generalizable and Comprehensible Industrial Intrusion Detection
    Konrad Wolsing, Eric Wagner, Luisa Lux, Klaus Wehrle, and Martin Henze
    In Proceedings of the 34th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Sec), Aug 2025
  2. EuroS&P
    CAIBA: Multicast Source Authentication for CAN Through Reactive Bit Flipping
    Eric Wagner, Frederik Basels, Jan Bauer, Till Zimmermann, Klaus Wehrle, and Martin Henze
    In Proceedings of the 2025 IEEE 10th European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P), Jun 2025
  3. USENIX Sec
    You Cannot Escape Me: Detecting Evasions of SIEM Rules in Enterprise Networks
    Rafael Uetz, Marco Herzog, Louis Hackländer, Simon Schwarz, and Martin Henze
    In Proceedings of the 33rd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Sec), Aug 2024
  4. ASIA CCS
    Madtls: Fine-grained Middlebox-aware End-to-end Security for Industrial Communication
    Eric Wagner, David Heye, Martin Serror, Ike Kunze, Klaus Wehrle, and Martin Henze
    In Proceedings of the 19th ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIA CCS), Jul 2024
  5. ESORICS
    One IDS is not Enough! Exploring Ensemble Learning for Industrial Intrusion Detection
    Konrad Wolsing, Dominik Kus, Eric Wagner, Jan Pennekamp, Klaus Wehrle, and Martin Henze
    In Proceedings of the 28th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS), Sep 2023