Autonomous underwater acoustic communication devices are vulnerable to several cybersecurity attacks. This is an issue of increasingly greater concern when these devices carry out safety-critical or tactical tasks.

We are designing a full cyber-security suite for underwater communications, including authentication, privacy, and biomimetic signal detection functions. For this, we exploit unique underwater acoustic channel characteristics.

We bring together expertise from three NATO countries and one Partner country. Our co-directors bear a long-standing expertise in communications, networking, signal processing, security, hardware, and field trials.

We back rigorous theoretical results with sea experiments featuring real hardware, different systems, and complex equipment such as drifters and autonomous underwater vehicles.