Emerging Embedded and Cyber Physical System Security Challenges and Innovations
Kim‐Kwang Raymond Choo, Mehran Mozaffari Kermani, Reza Azarderakhsh, Manimaran Govindarasu · IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing · 2017
The papers in this special issue focus on deeply embedded systems and the challenges of cyper-physical security systems. Deeply-embedded systems (deployed in human body, with computer programs sending and receiving sensitive data and performing data mining for the decisions) are increasingly popular, but the security and privacy issues are not fully understood and studied. For example, issues relating to the confidentiality/integrity/availability/privacy of implantable and wearable medical devices, secure and private big data analytics, acquisition, and storage, privacy-preserving data mining, secure machine learning, cyber physical systems security, and security of hardware and software systems used for databases (with diverse societal contexts) are critical, and can be challenging to address due to their unique constraints and usage model. Existing systems for such computations would need to be transparently integrated into sensitive environments-the consequent size and energy constraints imposed on any security solutions are demanding. Thus, unique challenges arise due to the sensitivity of computation processing, need for security in implementations, and assurance “gaps.” This special issue is dedicated to the identification of techniques designed for embedded systems and cyber-physical systems, such as emerging cryptographic solutions applicable to extremely-constrained, sensitive infrastructures.