Railway cyber safety: An intelligent threat perspective

Unwin, Duncan Wade; Sanzogni, Louis

doi:10.1177/09544097211000518

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“…44 In addition to this, researchers have used attack trees to build cyberattack scenarios for rail control system and provided countermeasures for railway cyber safety. 45 Next, researchers have also proposed an enhanced model called communication based train control and management enhanced safety and security impact reference model (CBTC e-SSIRM plus) for secure communication between track-side and on-board equipment. 46–49…”

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A review on cybersecurity in railways

Kour

Patwardhan

Thaduri

et al. 2022

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part F:

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Digitalisation is transforming the railway globally. One of the major considerations in digital transformation of any industry including the railway is the increased exposure to cyberattacks. The railway industry is vulnerable to these attacks because since the number of digital items and also number of interfaces between digital and physical components in the railway systems keep increasing. Increased number of items and interfaces require new frameworks, concepts and architectures to ensure the railway system’s resilience with respect to cybersecurity challenges, such as lack of proactiveness, lack of holistic perspective and obsolescence of safety systems exposed to current and future cyber threats landscape. To this date, there are several works carried out in the literature that studied the cybersecurity aspects and its application on railway infrastructure. However, to develop and implement an appropriate roadmap to cybersecurity in railways, there is a need of describing emerging challenges, and approaches to deal with these challenges and the possibilities and benefits of these. Hence, the objective of this paper is to provide a systematic review and outline cybersecurity emerging trends and approaches, and also to identify possible solutions by querying literature, academic and industrial, for future directions. The authors of this paper conducted separate searches through four popular databases, that is, Google Scholar, Scopus, Web of Science and IEEE explore. For the screening process, authors have used keywords with Boolean operators and database filters and identified 90 articles most relevant to the study domain. The analysis of 90 articles shows that majority of the cybersecurity studies lies within the railways are conceptual and lags in application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) based security. Like other industries, it is very important that railways should also follow latest security technologies, trends and train their workforce for cyber hygiene since railways are already in digitalization transition mode.

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A review on cybersecurity in railways

Kour

Patwardhan

Thaduri

et al. 2022

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part F:

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“…As political tensions continue to increase, the risk of a cyber-attack by state sponsored actors continues to grow. Whereas independent hackers choose simple attacks which provide large monetary rewards, state actors are more likely to target critical infrastructure [29].…”

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Railway cyber security and TS50701

Parkinson,

Basher,

Bamford

Civil-Comp Conferences

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The operational technology cyber security (OTCS) of rail systems is lagging behind other industries such as aviation [1]. For this short paper, standards, guidance and research papers including the new CENELEC technical specification TS50701 [2] were reviewed. Gaps in the coverage of this literature were identified, as well as further work that needs to be done to ensure the railway becomes more cyber secure in the future.

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