On 16 June 2026, PTCC (Programme de Transfert au Campus Cyber) hosted an afternoon at the Auditorium Galaxy in Puteaux dedicated to the cybersecurity of critical distribution networks — telecom, energy, drinking water — whose architectures and operational constraints share common vulnerabilities.
Program
- Nicolas Prigent (PTCC/Inria) — introduction and a look back at incidents analyzed by the Polish CERT
- Stéphane Mocanu (Grenoble INP) — SCADA system vulnerabilities
- Mathieu Galissot (CEA) — electric grid security and deception techniques
- Pérez Pelage (SecurZenn) — regulatory landscape (NIS2, Cyber Resilience Act)
- Nassim Bouiche (Sandfox) — critical infrastructure resilience
- Léa Kenmogne (Grenoble INP) — AI-based attack detection
- Lucas Georget (EDF R&D / LAAS-CNRS) — hardware-assisted malware detection
- Pierre Parrend (EPITA / ICube) — water distribution network security, as part of the CoRREau project (ANR-22-CE39-0010)
Our talk
Our presentation covered cyberattack detection in water distribution networks, building on work carried out within the ANR CoRREau project. It extends the results published in Combining Physical and Network Data for Attack Detection in Water Distribution Networks (WDSA/CCWI 2024) and in Tool Demo: Topology analysis with GPML for detection of cyberattacks in Water Distribution Networks (IEEE/IFIP NOMS 2026), which combine physical and network data to improve attack detection on this type of infrastructure.
The event was an opportunity to exchange with researchers and industry practitioners on the challenges specific to critical infrastructure: high equipment heterogeneity, long lifecycles, and availability constraints that limit the direct application of standard IT cybersecurity practices.