Strengthening the Security of Supervised Networks by Automating Hardening Mechanisms

In recent years, the place occupied by the various manifestations of cyber-crime in companies has been considerable. Indeed, due to the rapid evolution of telecommunications technologies, companies, regardless of their size or sector of activity, are now the target of advanced persistent threats. The Work 2035 study also revealed that cyber crimes (such as critical infrastructure hacks) and massive data breaches are major sources of concern. Thus, it is important for organizations to guarantee a minimum level of security to avoid potential attacks that can cause paralysis of systems, loss of sensitive data, exposure to blackmail, damage to reputation or even a commercial harm. To do this, among other means, hardening is used, the main objective of which is to reduce the attack surface within a company. The execution of the hardening configurations as well as the verification of these are carried out on the servers and network equipment with the aim of reducing the number of openings present by keeping only those which are necessary for proper operation. However, nowadays, in many companies, these tasks are done manually. As a result, the execution and verification of hardening configurations are very often subject to potential errors but also highly consuming human and financial resources. The problem is that it is essential for operators to maintain an optimal level of security while minimizing costs, hence the interest in automating hardening processes and verifying the hardening of servers and network equipment. It is in this logic that we propose within the framework of this work the reinforcement of the security of the information systems (IS) by the automation of the mechanisms of hardening. In our work, we have, on the one hand, set up a hardening procedure in accordance with international security standards for servers, routers and switches and, on the other hand, designed and produced a functional application which makes it possible to: 1) Realise the configuration of the hardening;2) Verify them;3) Correct the non conformities;4) Write and send by mail a verification report for the configurations;5) And finally update the procedures of hardening. Our web application thus created allows in less than fifteen (15) minutes actions that previously took at least five (5) hours of time. This allows supervised network operators to save time and money, but also to improve their security standards in line with international standards.

Aeroengine Fault Diagnosis Method Based on Optimized Supervised Kohonen Network

To diagnose the aeroengine faults accurately,the supervised Kohonen(S-Kohonen)network is proposed for fault diagnosis.Via adding the output layer behind competitive layer,the network was modified from the unsupervised structure to the supervised structure.Meanwhile,the hybrid particle swarm optimization(H-PSO)was used to optimize the connection weights,after using adaptive inheritance mode(AIM)based on the elite strategy,and adaptive detecting response mechanism(ADRM),HPSO could guide the particles adaptively jumping out of the local solution space,and ensure obtaining the global optimal solution with higher probability.So the optimized S-Kohonen network could overcome the problems of non-identifiability for recognizing the unknown samples,and the non-uniqueness for classification results existing in traditional Kohonen(T-Kohonen)network.The comparison study on the GE90 engine borescope image texture feature recognition is carried out,the research results show that:the optimized S-Kohonen network has a strong ability of practical application in the classification fault diagnosis;the classification accuracy is higher than the common neural network model.

Numerical Solutions of a Novel Designed Prevention Class in the HIV Nonlinear Model

The presented research aims to design a new prevention class(P)in the HIV nonlinear system,i.e.,the HIPV model.Then numerical treatment of the newly formulated HIPV model is portrayed handled by using the strength of stochastic procedure based numerical computing schemes exploiting the artificial neural networks(ANNs)modeling legacy together with the optimization competence of the hybrid of global and local search schemes via genetic algorithms(GAs)and active-set approach(ASA),i.e.,GA-ASA.The optimization performances through GA-ASA are accessed by presenting an error-based fitness function designed for all the classes of the HIPV model and its corresponding initial conditions represented with nonlinear systems of ODEs.To check the exactness of the proposed stochastic scheme,the comparison of the obtained results and Adams numerical results is performed.For the convergence measures,the learning curves are presented based on the different contact rate values.Moreover,the statistical performances through different operators indicate the stability and reliability of the proposed stochastic scheme to solve the novel designed HIPV model.

A novel predict-prevention quality control method of multi-stage manufacturing process towards zero defect manufacturing

Zero defection manufacturing (ZDM) is the pursuit of the manufacturing industry. However, there is a lack of the implementation method of ZDM in the multi-stage manufacturing process (MMP). Implementing ZDM and controlling product quality in MMP remains an urgent problem in intelligent manufacturing. A novel predict-prevention quality control method in MMP towards ZDM is proposed, including quality characteristics monitoring, key quality characteristics prediction, and assembly quality optimization. The stability of the quality characteristics is detected by analyzing the distribution of quality characteristics. By considering the correlations between different quality characteristics, a deep supervised long-short term memory (SLSTM) prediction network is built for time series prediction of quality characteristics. A long-short term memory-genetic algorithm (LSTM-GA) network is proposed to optimize the assembly quality. By utilizing the proposed quality control method in MMP, unqualified products can be avoided, and ZDM of MMP is implemented. Extensive empirical evaluations on the MMP of compressors validate the applicability and practicability of the proposed method.

Quality-related locally weighted soft sensing for non-

Soft sensors are widely used to predict quality variables which are usually hard to measure.It is necessary to construct an adaptive model to cope with process non-stationaries.In this study,a novel quality-related locally weighted soft sensing method is designed for non-stationary processes based on a Bayesian network with latent variables.Specifically,a supervised Bayesian network is proposed where quality-oriented latent variables are extracted and further applied to a double-layer similarity meas-urement algorithm.The proposed soft sensing method tries to find a general approach for non-stationary processes via quality-related information where the concepts of local similarities and window confidence are explained in detail.The performance of the developed method is demonstrated by application to a numerical example and a debutanizer column.It is shown that the proposed method outperforms competitive methods in terms of the accuracy of predicting key quality variables.