Md Habibor Rahman, Erfan Yazdandoost Hamedani, Young-Jun Son, Mohammed Shafae
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Abstract
Abstract Identifying, analyzing, and evaluating cybersecurity risks is essential to devise effective decision-making strategies to secure critical manufacturing against potential cyberattacks. However, a manufacturing-specific quantitative approach to effectively model threat events and evaluate the unique cybersecurity risks in discrete manufacturing systems is lacking. In response, this paper introduces the first taxonomy-driven graph-theoretic model and framework to formally represent this unique cybersecurity threat landscape and identify vulnerable manufacturing assets requiring prioritized control. First, the proposed framework characterizes threat actors' techniques, tactics, and procedures using taxonomical classifications of manufacturing-specific threat attributes and integrates these attributes into cybersecurity risk modeling. This facilitates systematic generation of comprehensive and generalizable cyber-physical attack graphs for discrete manufacturing systems. Second, using the attack graph formalism, the proposed framework enables concurrent modeling and analysis of a wide variety of cybersecurity threats comprising varying attack vectors, locations, vulnerabilities, and consequences. The risk model captures the cascading attack impact of varying attack methods through different cyber and physical entities in manufacturing systems, leading to specific consequences. Then, the constructed cyber-physical attack graphs are analyzed to comprehend threat propagation through the discrete manufacturing value chain and identify potential attack paths. Third, a quantitative risk assessment approach is presented to evaluate the cybersecurity risk associated with potential attack paths. It also identifies the attack path with the maximum likelihood of success, pointing out critical manufacturing assets requiring prioritized control. Finally, the proposed risk modeling and assessment framework is demonstrated using an illustrative example.
期刊介绍:
The ASME Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering (JCISE) publishes articles related to Algorithms, Computational Methods, Computing Infrastructure, Computer-Interpretable Representations, Human-Computer Interfaces, Information Science, and/or System Architectures that aim to improve some aspect of product and system lifecycle (e.g., design, manufacturing, operation, maintenance, disposal, recycling etc.). Applications considered in JCISE manuscripts should be relevant to the mechanical engineering discipline. Papers can be focused on fundamental research leading to new methods, or adaptation of existing methods for new applications.
Scope: Advanced Computing Infrastructure; Artificial Intelligence; Big Data and Analytics; Collaborative Design; Computer Aided Design; Computer Aided Engineering; Computer Aided Manufacturing; Computational Foundations for Additive Manufacturing; Computational Foundations for Engineering Optimization; Computational Geometry; Computational Metrology; Computational Synthesis; Conceptual Design; Cybermanufacturing; Cyber Physical Security for Factories; Cyber Physical System Design and Operation; Data-Driven Engineering Applications; Engineering Informatics; Geometric Reasoning; GPU Computing for Design and Manufacturing; Human Computer Interfaces/Interactions; Industrial Internet of Things; Knowledge Engineering; Information Management; Inverse Methods for Engineering Applications; Machine Learning for Engineering Applications; Manufacturing Planning; Manufacturing Automation; Model-based Systems Engineering; Multiphysics Modeling and Simulation; Multiscale Modeling and Simulation; Multidisciplinary Optimization; Physics-Based Simulations; Process Modeling for Engineering Applications; Qualification, Verification and Validation of Computational Models; Symbolic Computing for Engineering Applications; Tolerance Modeling; Topology and Shape Optimization; Virtual and Augmented Reality Environments; Virtual Prototyping