Towards a Security Reference Architecture for Cyber- Physical Systems

Romero, Virginia M.; Fernández, Eduardo B.

doi:10.18687/laccei2017.1.1.435

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“…Romero and Fernandez [4] define a new model to represent CPS threads through architectural patterns and to consider their cross-domain effects. In particular, they propose an idea where there exists similar threads in different types of CPS which might be controlled in similar ways.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

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Enhancing Security and Reliability for Smart- Systems' Architectures

Hofer

2018

2018 IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering Workshops (ISSREW)

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The vision of a fourth industrial revolution lately strongly captured the attention of research. A Cyber-physical system (CPS) is one of the main drivers of this vision. Such system controls an underlying factory interacting with sensors, actuators and other systems creating systems-of-systems. A main point of interest is how these components are built and interconnected, i.e. the system's architecture, and how it might be improved to increase reliability and security. Unfortunately, a recently completed systematic mapping study has shown that security based research for CPS architectures is only weakly present. The target of this research is therefore to find generalized architectural models and patterns that improve reliability and security. The results will enable the improvement of reliability and security of cyber-physical systems in general, leading to a variety of application scenarios and possible use cases.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

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Enhancing Security and Reliability for Smart- Systems' Architectures

Hofer

2018

2018 IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering Workshops (ISSREW)

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“…Our objective is not to define an RA for any type of CPS, but we will consider a specific type of system, a transportation system, specifically a maritime container cargo port. As we discuss in Section 7, an analysis of the relevant literature found that there are not many reference architectures for cargo ports ( [9] and Section 7). We show here a cargo port RA built of patterns described using UML models.…”

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Towards a Reference Architecture for Cargo Ports

Romero

Fernández

2023

Future Internet

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Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are physical systems whose operations are coordinated, monitored, and controlled by computing and communication functions. These systems are typically heterogeneous, including Internet of Things and information technology subsystems, and can present a myriad of implementation details, making them very complex systems. An important type of CPS is a maritime container terminal (cargo port), which is a facility where cargo containers are transported between ships and land vehicles for onward transportation and vice versa. A cargo port performs four basic functions: receiving, storing, staging, and loading for both import and export containers. We present here process patterns that describe the functional aspects of cargo ports and a pattern that describes their structural properties (patterns are encapsulated solutions to recurrent problems). These patterns describe semantic aspects found in any cargo port and can be adapted to describe other CPSs. We decompose these process patterns into use cases that describe their interactions with the system. We then integrate the process patterns with structural patterns to assemble a partial reference architecture (RA) that shows the interactions of all the patterns while also indicating the typical stakeholders found in all ports. We validate the proposed reference architecture, highlighting its theoretical and practical value. Software and system designers of cargo ports need to start from a conceptual and abstract view that is subsequently refined to add more details. The use of reference architectures and patterns is an effective way to organize and describe the functional and non-functional aspects of a system, as well as to unify the design of all its aspects. This is, until now, the only published RA for cargo ports, and it can be a useful guideline for the designers of any type of cargo port.

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“…Therefore, the use of the components and concepts defined in the SRA can better support our process, while at the same time, we address the problem of the typical complexity of this type of systems. SRAs have become useful tools that allow a better understanding of complex systems [17], such as cyber-physical systems [18]. In this way, our SRA is designed to allow the use of patterns of different kinds to ease the implementation of the system and improve the addition of non-functional requirements [19].…”

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Secure Development of Big Data Ecosystems

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A Big Data environment is a powerful and complex ecosystem that helps companies extract important information from data to make the best business and strategic decisions. In this context, due to the quantity, variety, and sensitivity of the data managed by these systems, as well as the heterogeneity of the technologies involved, privacy and security especially become crucial issues. However, ensuring these concerns in Big Data environments is not a trivial issue, and it cannot be treated from a partial or isolated perspective. It must be carried out through a holistic approach, starting from the definition of requirements and policies, and being present in any relevant activity of its development and deployment. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a methodological approach for integrating security and privacy in Big Data development based on main standards and common practices. In this way, we have defined a development process for this kind of ecosystems that considers not only security in all the phases of the process but also the inherent characteristics of Big Data. We describe this process through a set of phases that covers all the relevant stages of the development of Big Data environments, which are supported by a customized security reference architecture (SRA) that defines the main components of this kind of systems along with the key concepts of security.

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Towards a Security Reference Architecture for Cyber- Physical Systems

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Enhancing Security and Reliability for Smart- Systems' Architectures

Enhancing Security and Reliability for Smart- Systems' Architectures

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