TwinPot: Digital Twin-assisted Honeypot for Cyber-Secure Smart Seaports

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2310.12880v2
• Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2023 23:29:53 GMT
• Title: TwinPot: Digital Twin-assisted Honeypot for Cyber-Secure Smart Seaports
• Authors: Yagmur Yigit, Omer Kemal Kinaci, Trung Q. Duong, and Berk Canberk
• Abstract summary: Digital Twin (DT) technology can be employed to increase the complexity and simulation fidelity of the honeypots. We propose a DT-assisted honeypot, called TwinPot, for external attacks in smart seaports. We show that our solution successfully detects internal and external attacks.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: The idea of next-generation ports has become more apparent in the last ten years in response to the challenge posed by the rising demand for efficiency and the ever-increasing volume of goods. In this new era of intelligent infrastructure and facilities, it is evident that cyber-security has recently received the most significant attention from the seaport and maritime authorities, and it is a primary concern on the agenda of most ports. Traditional security solutions can be applied to safeguard IoT and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) from harmful entities. Nevertheless, security researchers can only watch, examine, and learn about the behaviors of attackers if these solutions operate more transparently. Herein, honeypots are potential solutions since they offer valuable information about the attackers. It can be virtual or physical. Virtual honeypots must be more realistic to entice attackers, necessitating better high-fidelity. To this end, Digital Twin (DT) technology can be employed to increase the complexity and simulation fidelity of the honeypots. Seaports can be attacked from both their existing devices and external devices at the same time. Existing mechanisms are insufficient to detect external attacks; therefore, the current systems cannot handle attacks at the desired level. DT and honeypot technologies can be used together to tackle them. Consequently, we suggest a DT-assisted honeypot, called TwinPot, for external attacks in smart seaports. Moreover, we propose an intelligent attack detection mechanism to handle different attack types using DT for internal attacks. Finally, we build an extensive smart seaport dataset for internal and external attacks using the MANSIM tool and two existing datasets to test the performance of our system. We show that under simultaneous internal and external attacks on the system, our solution successfully detects internal and external attacks.

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