Within the framework of the 19th Spanish Meeting on Cryptology and Information Security (RECSI 2026), held at the University of La Laguna (Tenerife) from 17 to 21 March, Carlos Mario Braga, researcher in the Alarcos Group at the University of Castilla-La Mancha and collaborator with the Security and Auditing Group (GSyA), presented the paper “Inverse Cybernetics: Structural Detection of Cyberattacks through Ecosystem Symmetry Breaking”.

The work proposes an innovative approach to detecting evasive cyberattacks, based on analysing the global behaviour of the digital ecosystem rather than individual events. In contrast to the limitations of traditional methods, it introduces the concept of ecosystem symmetry breaking, enabling the identification of structural alterations in the early stages of an attack. By employing statistical metrics such as Jensen–Shannon divergence and Wasserstein distance, the proposal demonstrates its capacity to anticipate threats even when they do not produce detectable anomalies at a local level, opening new avenues for structural monitoring in complex systems.

This approach reinforces an advanced view of cybersecurity, oriented towards early detection and a systemic understanding of digital environments.