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Digital Twins – a security perspective on architectures and standards
Abstract
The emergence of the Digital Twins (DTs) and its application to enhance business models is increasingly attracting the attention of many companies. They are demonstrating its high value in predicting failures, spotting abnormal situations and, hence, improving industrial and manufacturing scenarios. Also, they are capable of virtualizing and simulating physical world assets, what enhances processes optimization in many application domains and, at the same time, provide attractive services like predictive maintenance, real-time monitoring, and security management. In fact, simulation capabilities of DTs can be used as a resource for cybersecurity solutions, while at the same time the virtualization can be used to test and validate security approaches. As with many other technologies, full deployment of DTs in a secure and consistent way rely much in the standardization efforts from international bodies. In this talk, we will elaborate on these issues, also considering and analyzing the effort made by standardization bodies and the problems we still face.
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Security by Design, Strategy or Oxymoron?
Abstract
Computer security became a concern in the 1960s. Its scope widened when computers connected via the telephone network and kept widening when the proverbial advances in technology created new opportunities for applications that rely on the availability of distributed IT infrastructures. Computer security and its siblings became research domains outside the military sector in the 1980s, at the time I entered this area via doctoral research on a topic from cryptography. This talk will explore to which extent security by design has succeeded over the last fifty years, to which extent security by design is a promise that can be never met, and where security research might find inspiration for new research challenges.
