Cyber Physical Systems (CPSs) – Opportunities and Challenges for Improving Cyber Security

Challenges in Security for Cyber-Physical Systems

The design of security for cyber-physical systems must take into account several characteristics common to such systems. Among these are feedback between the cyber and physical environment, distributed management and control, uncertainty, real-time requirements, and geographic distribution. This paper discusses these characteristics and suggests a design approach that better integrates security...

Security in Cyber-Physical Systems

Information Security is a domain of IT that has a well developed body of knowledge, and a cadre of practitioners with significant experience in securing IT systems. Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) also has a well developed body of knowledge and a well trained cadre of professionals that have been successfully running systems for years. These are two separate groups that would benefit from working ...

Cyber-Physical Systems: Imminent Challenges

Cyber-physical Systems Security- Challenges and Research Ideas

Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are at a crossroads. Typical CPSs with multi-loop control consisting of device controllers, plant-level distributed control, and system-wide SCADA components are pushed (see Figure 1 below) by market forces to:  Connect many diverse (e.g., control and business) systems leading to an internetworked system of systems spanning wide geographic areas,  Use off-the-shel...

Challenges and Opportunities in Historical Data Analytics for Cyber Security

Historical analysis of data for cyber threat is the most traditional means for security protection. Advances in virtualization, hunting techniques, and virtualized managed security services will effectively address many of the challenges found in historical security analysis of data in the past few years. (Analyst Note: This paper was inspired by discussions about threat analysis of historical ...