Alan Oliveira, LASIGE integrated researcher, delivered an invited talk at the XV Inter-American Naval Specialized Conference on Telecommunications and Information Technology (CNIE-T&TI), on October 6, 2025, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The conference gathered representatives from the Navies of Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, and the Dominican Republic, as well as delegates from the Inter-American Defense Board (IADB) and the Permanent Secretariat of the Inter-American Naval Conference (SPCNI).

Under the central theme “The Challenges of Cyber Defense and Naval Communication Systems in Degraded, Denied, Intermittent, and Limited Bandwidth (DDIL) Environments”, the event aimed to foster discussions and recommendations to enhance, standardize, and secure naval communication and information systems for efficient and resilient operations in both peacetime and crisis situations.

Alan Oliveira’s talk, titled “Naval Systems Cybersecurity: From Threats to Legacy Systems to New Attack Models”, explored the growing presence of the cyber domain in the naval environment. He addressed the attack surface of maritime systems, characterized cyberattack models targeting sensors and naval platforms, and discussed strategies to mitigate both legacy-system threats and new attack models.