Engineering Cybersecurity into Cyber Physical Systems

Abstract

Advances in the interconnected capabilities of cyber physical systems (CPS) affect virtually every engineered system. Today, software approaches dominate all aspects of connecting the physical and cyber worlds in part due to the convergence of computing, control and communications software technologies. Unfortunately, software technologies are more vulnerable to cybersecurity problems than traditional hardware solutions. This workshop aims to develop a research agenda for engineering cybersecurity into cyber physical systems (CPS) through designtime requirements engineering, continuous assurance at runtime, and cognitive security analytics. CPS are distributed, software-intensive smart systems that control tightly integrated computational and physical components. A combination of design-time and runtime techniques are needed to support reasoning about cybersecurity. We advocate a holistic requirements engineering approach, continuous validation with feedback loops supported by models at runtime and networked control, and cognitive security analytics using Watson. CCS Concepts • Software and its engineering➝Software organization and properties➝Software system structures • Security and privacy➝Software and application security➝Software security engineering