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Security Experimentation with Cyber-Physical Devices
The term "cyber-physical systems" refers to the tight coupling of computational and physical resources, where the synergy of these two environments enables novel uses of the system and improves its robustness. For example, critical infrastructures such as power, water, and sewage are increasingly being heavily networked, as is air, rail, and ship traffic control. An emerging trend in vehicular technologies calls for vehicles that can talk to each other and to base stations along the roads and that can also tap into the public Internet. Medical devices are being equipped with connectivity so that they can be programmed or read remotely by physicians.
This intersection of networking and the physical world poses unique security challenges, as cyber attacks could wreak enormous damage and endanger human lives. Realistic and efficient experimentation platforms are needed to assess this threat and evaluate possible defenses. This panel will discuss challenges and propose solutions to security experimentation with cyber-physical systems, including:
the choice of appropriate evaluation platforms and evaluation approaches
how/where to gather appropriate and realistic data about cyber-physical system behavior and relevant security threats
how to reproduce data in an experimental setting with a high degree of precision and fidelity
how to transition ideas and prototypes into real-world systems
author = {Clifford Neuman and Deborah Frincke and Kevin Fu and Tadayoshi Kohno and Marcelo Masera},
title = {Security Experimentation with {Cyber-Physical} Devices},
booktitle = {3rd Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test (CSET 10)},
year = {2010},
address = {Washington, DC},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/cset10/security-experimentation-cyber-physical-devices},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = aug
}
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