Abstract:
We argue that cyber-physical systems cannot be protected just by protecting their IT infrastructure and that the CIA approach familiar from communications security is insufficient in CPS security. Rather, the IT components should be treated as a control system, inputs to that control system should be checked for veracity, and control algorithms should be designed in a way that they can handle a certain amount of adversarial actions. We will discuss some open research questions that need to be addressed in this domain.
Biography:
Prof. Dieter Gollmann received his Dipl.-Ing. in Engineering Mathematics (1979) and Dr.tech. (1984) from the University of Linz, Austria, where he was a research assistant in the Department for System Science. He was a Lecturer in Computer Science at Royal Holloway, University of London, and later a scientific assistant at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, where he was awarded the ‘venia legendi’ for Computer Science in 1991. He rejoined Royal Holloway in 1990, where he was the first Course Director of the MSc in Information Security. He moved to Microsoft Research in Cambridge in 1998. In 2003, he took the chair for Security in Distributed Applications at Hamburg University of Technology, Germany. Dieter Gollmann is an editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Information Security and an associate editor of the IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine. His textbook on ‘Computer Security’ has appeared in its third edition.
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