Georgios Michail Makrakis (a.k.a George Makrakis) main interests are Cybersecurity and Software Engineering especially on Industrial Internet of Thins (IIoT). Currently works as Research Assistant at University of Idaho. Has Software Engineering experience as he previously worked at Plegma Labs S.A., providing IoT/ICS solutions. Also, holds a degree from the University of the Aegean from a 5-year Bachelor’s in Information & Communication Systems Engineering, while now he is pursuing his Ph.D. at University of Idaho, Idaho Falls.
Joined Plegma Labs as a member of the University's internship program, specialized on software development. Also provided DevOps solutions and had IoT security, as basic guideline in every project.
Developed networking capabilities and cyberattack scenarios for nuclear power plant simulators that serve the purpose of evaluating the operators' responses against threats that can affect digital technologies in modern nuclear power plants.
Examining the effects that logic modification and network attacks have to the physical properties of ICSs/IoT devices using electromagnetic (EM) emissions analysis. Also, incorporating a secure-by-design architecture for Smart Grid applications based on IEC 62443.
Research areas of interests involve the Intrusion Detection Systems and Authentication/Cryptography for Industrial Control Systems (ICS). Currently investigating the categorization of normal and abnormal behavior of ICS devices using electromagnetic (EM) emissions analysis.
First 3 years studied the fundamentals of ICT for the bachelor and the next 2 followed Security of Information and Communication Systems and Privacy, Communication Systems and Networks and Foundations of Computer Science as my technological directions of studies to receive the integrated master.
Member of Microsoft Student Partners, a group under the auspices of Microsoft with mission to encourage students to participate in their local tech community and develop valuable technical, and career skills that will be beneficial for their future careers.
K. Vedros, G. M. Makrakis, C. Kolias, R. C. Ivans, C. Rieger, "Towards Scalable EM-based Anomaly Detection For Embedded Devices Through Synthetic Fingerprinting", 12th International Conference on Embedded Systems and Applications (EMSA 2023)
K. Vedros, G. M. Makrakis, C. Kolias, M. Xian, D. Barbara, C. Rieger "On the Limits of EM Based Detection of Control Logic Injection Attacks In Noisy Environments", 2021 Resilience Week (RWS), 2021, pp. 1-9.
G. M. Makrakis, C. Kolias, G. Kambourakis, C. Rieger, and J. Benjamin, "Industrial and Critical Infrastructure Security: Technical Analysis of Real-Life Security Incidents," IEEE Access, vol. 9, pp. 165295-165325, 2021
G. Kambourakis, C. Kolias, D. Geneiatakis, G. Karopoulos, G. M. Makrakis, and I. Kounelis„ "A state-of-the-art review on the security of mainstream iot wireless pan protocol stacks", Symmetry, vol. 12,no. 4, p. 579, 2020
Implementation of MODBUS/TCP Security for a highly adopted MODBUS/TCP for .NET
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A Zeek Parser for the IEC 60870-5-104 protocol (aka IEC 104) built using Spicy.
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