National Centre for Cyber Security (NCCS) participated in 1st Annual Showcasing of Artificial Intelligence and IoT Products & Services organized by COMSTECH on 4th and 5th of August 2020.

The President of Pakistan, H. E. Dr. Arif Alvi along with Minister of Science and Technology Mr. Fawad Hussain Ch., visited NCCS exhibit booth and highlighted the need of AI and its applications in different domains of cyber security.

Many high ranking officials including Air Marshal Javaid Ahmed, HI (M) (Retd.), VC Air University and Dr. Zain Ul-Abdin, Director General (R&D) Higher Education Commission of Pakistan also visited NCCS exhibit booth. Technical demonstrations of 32 indigenously developed cyber security toolkits and applications were given at the event. Audience shown particular interest in these products and toolkits developed by 11 NCCS affiliated labs.

Products that earned significant interest by the audience includes “ThingzEye”, an IoT Firewall developed by IoT Security Lab of NCCS which is capable of securing both IoT and non-IoT networks. It contains a number of novel features that existing firewalls lack. It provides defense attacks that target IoT protocols; MQTT, CoAP etc. Along with security, it provides several use-case specific features.

Four indigenously developed solutions of National Cyber Security Auditing and Evaluation Lab (NCSAEL) were presented. “MobiHawlk” is an Android vulnerability scanner which identifies weakness and vulnerabilities in user applications. “OSCT” (Operating System Compliance Tool Kit) is a security solution which gathers information about the current security controls deployed on the system and provides the current technical security posture of the system. “FEAST” is a firmware extraction tool kit which indentifies security weaknesses and back doors present in firmwares. “PASBAAN” is a customzed sandbox which detects diverse family of Malware.

Cyber Reconnaissance and Combat Lab of NCCS also gave technical demonstration of its innovative products such as Intrusion Detection System Engine/Intrusion Prevention System Engine, Threat Intelligence Framework, Enterprise Security Interface Management. The core product "NETSPECTION” is a high-performance Signature based Network Intrusion Detection System capable of detecting protocol based attacks and malware - Code Injections, Trojans, Spywares.

Three indigenously developed solutions of Devices and Network Security Lab of NCCS were presented. “AUSIEM” is a customized, cost-effective and Scalable Security Information & Event Management (SIEM) Solution for SMEs. “AUDroid” is a security enhanced customized Android OS. “AUWatch” is Mobile Device Management solution for customized/generic Android OS.

Mobile, computer and social media forensics toolkits developed by National Cybercrime and Forensics Lab of NCCS also remained a key focus. Computer forensic toolkit “FORKIT” helps to analyze a potentially compromised file structure to find signs of malicious activity. “PROFYLER” provides the user with an all-in-one toolkit for acquiring a forensic image of a mobile device, extraction of data from the image or directly from the device, and data recovery. “AirWatch” a social media forensics tool can look for and examine any specific profiles, channels, pages, blogs, trends, and hashtags from Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, and other social media platforms. This tool also produces visual analytics of sentimental data and generates reports.

Internet Security and Quantum Technology Lab of NCCS presented three indigenous solutions at the event. “NED-MAS” is a proxy-based solution which features automated malware detection before it is downloaded on a system. “NED-DLP” is centralized solution which integrates with OS instrumentation tool to monitor data leakage on endpoints. “NED-SIEM” for event and threat detection which integrates with variety of operating systems, network and endpoint devicesfor threat detection, event correlation, asset discovery, network and host intrusion detection systems.

Delegates from different institutions including NESCOM, Ministry of Defence Production, Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunications, Center for Advanced Research in Engineering (CARE) and many Cyber Security companies also visited NCCS booth and witnessed the solutions and demonstrations of 32 products and toolkits developed by National Centre for Cyber Security.