Autonomic Protection of Unmanned Maritime Autonomous Architecture (UMAA) Services

The main goal of the project is to developed Self-protection capabilities for the NAVY Unmanned Maritime Vehicles (UMV) against Denial of Service (DoS) attacks, Man-in-the-Middle (MITM), and unauthorized data exfiltration from both internal and external attackers.  The UMV-AP platform to be developed will provide the following capabilities: Behavior Analysis Units (BAUs) of UMV Services – This module will include several BAUs that will detect any malicious attack or compromises of the UMV services as well as the UMV sensors and actuators. Autonomic Incident Response System – This module will implement the recommended actions from the threat modeling and analysis of the UMV services so they can be executed automatically without the need for human intervention. UMV Management Interface (UMI) – This module provides the capability to self-configure UMV services, monitors their current state, and lists the actions that can be executed to implement the recommended responses for each detected attack type. The User Interface (UI) – This module provides full visibility into the current states of the UMV services and explains the logic behind the recommended actions. Honeywell CyberChip (HC2) – This secure hardware module provides a zero-trust solution for hosting the anomaly behavior analysis services and for providing cyber-resilience to the tactical edge platform.  Honeywell Embedded Anomaly Detection (HEAD) – This service provides real-time detection of the cyber anomaly in the network data of the tactical edge platform.  The service executes on the HC2 module as embedded service.