Postdoc in 'Cybersecurity FTE

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The Postdoc position in Cybersecurity will be based in the Department of Intelligent Systems (DIS) at Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences (TSHD) and the Data Science Centre of Excellence of the Netherlands Defence Academy (Mindlabs, Tilburg). The Postdoc will contribute to the research project “NEPTARGOS:
Nautical Empowerment for Proactive Threat Analysis and Resilience with Guardian Oversight Systems”. NEPTARGOS aims to enhance cyber risk management of the North Sea maritime infrastructure through AI-enabled, human-centred, and data-driven cyber-physical threat intelligence. Specifically, NEPTARGOS will employ an interdisciplinary approach, using insights from network science, game theory, law, data engineering, Artificial Intelligence (AI), governance, organization sciences and serious gaming to help Dutch governmental organizations, critical maritime infrastructure operators, and cyber-physical security professionals to design and implement effective defense and resilience models and measures for adversarial attacks.

More information about the project can be found here and here.

The postdoc will play a key role in the research team. The key responsibilities include:

• Design and implementation of a Security and Vulnerability Assessment (SVA) module;
• Research and implement key components to simulate adversarial attacks against CPS with the help of AI-generated scenarios;
• Implementation of threat modeling techniques;
• Creation and documentation of a Vulnerability Assessment Toolkit (VAST) to guide recovery, recommend mitigation strategies, and ensure alignment with regulatory and industry standards.