A body of knowledge containing laws, axioms and provable theories relating to some aspect of system security.
Event
WESS'2010
Embedded computing systems are continuously adopted in a wide range of application areas and importantly, they are responsible for a large number of safety-critical systems as well as for the management of critical information. The advent of Internet-enabled embedded systems introduces a large number of security issues: the Internet can be used to attack embedded systems and embedded systems can be used to attack the Internet. Furthermore, embedded systems are vulnerable to many attacks not relevant to servers because they are physically accessible.
Chris vanBuskirk Submitted by Chris vanBuskirk on April 16th, 2012
NSF Industry Round-Table on Cyber-Physical Systems, May 17, 2007, Arlington, VA.
Submitted by Anonymous on April 16th, 2012
Workshop on Security and Privacy in Cyber-Physical Systems, Sponsored by the Army Research Office, June 26-27, 2008, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, California.
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Submitted by Vinod Ganapathy on November 4th, 2011
Submitted by Vinod Ganapathy on August 10th, 2011
The objective of this research is to develop energy-efficient integrity establishment techniques for dynamic networks of cyber physical devices. In such dynamic networks, devices connect opportunistically and perform general-purpose computations on behalf of other devices. However, some devices may be malicious in intent and affect the integrity of computation. The approach is to develop new trust establishment mechanisms for dynamic networks. Existing trusted computing mechanisms are not directly applicable to cyber physical devices because they are resource-intensive and require devices to have special-purpose hardware. This project is addressing these problems along three research prongs. The first is a comprehensive study of the resource bottlenecks in current trust establishment protocols. Second, the insights from this study are being used to develop resource-aware attestation protocols for cyber physical devices that are equipped with trusted hardware. Third, the project is developing new trust establishment protocols for cyber physical devices that may lack trusted hardware. A key outcome of the project is an improved understanding of the tradeoffs needed to balance the concerns of security and resource-awareness in dynamic networks. Dynamic networks allow cyber physical devices to form a highly-distributed, cloud-like infrastructure for computations involving the physical world. The trust-establishment mechanisms developed in this project encourage devices to participate in dynamic networks, thereby unleashing the full potential of dynamic networks. This project includes development of dynamic networking applications, such as distributed gaming and social networking, in undergraduate curricula and course projects, thereby fostering the participation of this key demographic.
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Institution
Rutgers University New Brunswick
Lead PI
Vinod Ganapathy
Performance Period
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Sponsor
National Science Foundation
Co-PIs (text)
Ulrich Kremer
Lead PI (text)
Ganapathy, Vinod
Submitted by Vinod Ganapathy on April 7th, 2011
Augmenting dedicated control systems with
 real-time sensor 
and actuator networks poses a number of new challenges in control system design that cannot be addressed with traditional process 
control methods, including: a) the handling of additional, potentially
 asynchronous and/or delayed
 measurements in the overall networked control system, and b) the
 substantial increase in the number of process state variables, manipulated inputs, and measurements which may impede the ability of
 centralized control systems to carry out real-time calculations within th
Panagiotis Christofides Submitted by Panagiotis Christofides on August 6th, 2010
Dynamic networks allow cyber physical devices to connect opportunistically to share and process data gathered from the physical world. This project concerns dynamic networks of emerging cyber physical devices, such as smart phones and on-board embedded computing devices that combine sensors with general-purpose computing environments. These dynamic networks provide a powerful platform of networked devices with significant computation, communication and storage capabilities.
Submitted by Vinod Ganapathy on August 6th, 2010
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