Cybersecurity

DDS

Alias Robotics discovers numerous and dangerous vulnerabilities in the Robot Operating System’s (ROS) communications that can have “devastating consequences”

Alias Robotics discover about 15 dangerous vulnerabilities affecting DDS, the default communications middleware of ROS 2 and propose tools to detect them.

SROS2

SROS2: Usable Cyber Security Tools for ROS 2

We propose a robot cybersecurity methodology to secure computational graphs and improve SROS2, usable security tools for ROS 2. We argue that without usability, security in robotics will be greatly impaired.

Cybersecurity

Safety, Security and Performance in Robotics - A workshop led by the European Commission

Alias Robotics will participate as guest speaker in a workshop about what's needed for the safety validation of cobots led by the led by the European Commission and members of the AI Data Robotics Partnership EU

Alias Robotics

Alias Robotics boosts sales over 400% on robot cybersecurity solutions during 2021

Alias Robotics finishes up 2021 consolidating its market lead position and boosting sales over 400%. Robot cybersecurity market keeps on flourishing fast.

ROS2

Cybersecurity in the ROS 2 communication middleware, the Data Distribution Service (DDS)

Alias Robotics studies ROS 2 underlying communication middleware finding all DDS implementations vulnerable to various attacks.

Cybersecurity

Robot cybersecurity, a review

What's the status of cybersecurity in robotics? and, how can we best improve cyber-resillience in robotics? In this article we answer this questions and review the status of the robot cybersecurity after three years of research.

Cybersecurity

Alias Robotics and Trend Micro to lead the fight against cybercrime in robotics

Alias Robotics and Trend Micro to lead the fight against cybercrime in robotics. Their researchers demonstrate at Black Hat 2021 (Las Vegas) how industrial robots are fully exposed to hackers and disclose a methodology to study robot hardware architectures.

Cybersecurity

From robot security researchers to manage robot vulnerabilities as a CNA - Alias Robotics talks about engagement with MITRE as a CVE Numbering Authority for robotics.

Alias Robotics is CNA since 2020. From then on, we have referenced more than 30 CVEs. Not only from our research but Third-parties robot-related vulnerabilities reports. We explain our procedure to get a CVE and why the conventional scoring method is not entirely valid for robot vulnerabilities.

Cybersecurity

"2021 is a milestone year for robot cybersecurity" - Endika Gil-Uriarte, CEO at Alias Robotics, talks on the latest robot security news.

Industrial production lines have been interconnected between them but disconnected from IT. Connectivity technologies are changing this landscape. However, these technological advances have evolved faster than their protection technologies. Our CEO answers some of the most asked questions.

Cybersecurity

Alias Robotics and Telefónica Tech lead robot cybersecurity with CS4R LAB Initiative

Alias Robotics and Telefonica TECH create CS4R, the cybersecurity lab for robotics. A closer look at all the ins and outs of the laboratory's creation.

Cybersecurity

Robot Cybersecurity arrives to Professional Education thanks to Alias Robotics

TKNIKA has installed RIS at the Universal Robots UR3 of their SIF-400 didactic installation, where the Robot Immune System will work hand by hand with the newest industrial technologies. This is the first case of many in the educational market segment.

Cybersecurity

Protecting robot endpoints against cyber-threats

We discuss how to protect robot endpoints against cyber-threats and how our Robot Immune System (RIS) delivers protection for more than 46 different robots and robot components from different brands, including ROS.

robots

Alias Robotics and Kaspersky participate in joint research effort

Alias Robotics and Kaspersky have partnered to boost cyber-protection for robots used in operational technology (OT) infrastructure.

Robot Immune System

Alias Robotics Releases Robot Immune System (RIS) version 2.2.2

Release of the Robot Immune System (RIS) 2.2.2 to our customers, a security certified software solution for robots and robot components that protects them against cyberattacks. New security patches, bug fixes, modularity, security certification and more robots.

Alias Robotics

Alurity 1.0 release, a toolbox for robot cybersecurity

Alurity is a modular and composable toolbox for robot cybersecurity empowering security research in robotics.

disclosure

The week of Mobile Industrial Robots' bugs

From more than 100 security flaws identified, Alias Robotics has disclosed publicly 14 cybersecurity vulnerabilities affecting Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR) and other downstream manufacturers, impacting thousands of robots.

CEO

Announcing our new CEO in Alias Robotics

Alias Robotics is glad to announce new times. We welcome Endika Gil-Uriarte as our new Chief Executive Officer.

Univeral Robots

Cyber security company Alias Robotics publishing dozens of security vulnerabilities detected in robots from multinational Universal Robots A/S.

The Spanish robotics firm Alias Robotics, specialized in robot cybersecurity, is announcing dozens of security flaws detected by their researchers in the robots of Universal Robots, one of lead manufacturers of collaborative robots in the world.

week of bugs

The week of Universal Robots' bugs

Following a series of actions from Universal Robots, Alias Robotics has decided to react by launching the week of Universal Robots bugs. Alias' team will dedicate resources to file security flaws and consolidating everything and advicing on best security practices with these robots.

Robotics

DevSecOps in Robotics

DevSecOps is a set of best practices designed to help roboticists implant security deep in the heart of their development and operations processes.

CS4R

Alias Robotics leads the Cyber Security for Robotics Workshop (CS4R) at ERF2020

Alias Robotics continues showing leadership in the global robot cyber security landscape by leading the Cyber Security for Robotics Workshop (CS4R) at the European Robotics Forum 2020 #ERF2020.

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Alias Robotics will be on European Robotics Forum 2020

The Cyber Security for Robotics workshop (or CS4R for short) will argue about robot-related cybersecurity topics and challenges while providing a deep insight and discussion about potential cyber-risks the current robotics ecosystem is facing.

Cybersecurity

Alias Robotics and Joanneum Research display first results on the Robot Security Survey

We present some results from an online survey (Robot Security Survey) conducted by Alias Robotics and Joanneum Research. We aimed to assess the overall security status and awareness on robot security and the degree of uptake of security measures within the robotics industry.

real-time

Real-time security for robotics

Security is not a product, it's a process. It needs to be continously and periodically assessed. Alias' mission is to remove 0-days from robotics. This article discusses some of the threats that apply to real-time systems and how to secure them.

Threat Model

Threat modeling a ROS 2 robot

In the context of robotics, a threat model identifies threats that apply to the robot and/or its components (both software and hardware) while providing means to address or mitigate them. We present the threat model of a ROS 2 robot.