Cyber security attacks on robotic platforms

Abstract

Robotic technology has been rapidly transforming world economies in terms of business productivity and profitability. The market is shifting towards optimisation and automation – not just for the warehousing and manufacturing sectors, but even non-industrial areas such as defence, farming, hospitals, offices and even schools. The availability of open source platforms, falling hardware and electronics prices, prompt prototyping and convergence of technologies are some of the major reasons for this new revolution. However, cyber security and physical threats are high-priority areas when critical applications and missions are involved. Robotic technology has been rapidly transforming world economies in terms of business productivity and profitability. However, security threats are not always top of mind. Open source platforms, falling hardware and electronics prices and fast prototyping are some of the reasons for this new revolution. Cyber security and physical threats are high-priority areas when critical applications and missions are involved. Dr Akashdeep Bhardwaj, Dr Vinay Avasthi and Dr Sam Goundar analyse the threats to robotic systems and map the CIA model to boost security resilience.

Robotics cyber security: vulnerabilities, attacks, countermeasures, and recommendations

“…Despite the great advantages and promising future the robotic field holds, some major concerns are still lurking around, and imposing serious threats and issues [128] that can potentially affect both humans and machines. For this reason, these main issues and challenges are presented in this section.…”

Cybersecurity of Robotic Systems: Leading Challenges and Robotic System Design Methodology

“…Despite their significant advantages and a promising future, networked robotic systems pose serious non-attack resistance problems [51]. Of the relatively limited studies on the cybersecurity of robotic systems, the most common are the theoretical studies of vulnerability to attacks, threats, and risks.…”

“…Out of relatively narrow studies [51,[99][100][101][102] devoted to the cybersecurity of robotic systems, the most investigated is the safety of networked industrial robots. In the broad considerations given in [99] as some of the prevention mechanisms are listed physical separation of critical functions across different subsystems and appropriately testing the inputs coming from connected components as if they were coming from an untrusted party and taking into account eavesdropping and tampering of the message.…”

“…It should be added that artificial intelligence and deep learning methods can also be used to detect and recognize various intrusions by analyzing the software code [51]. A broad study of AI perceived as the target of attacks on one hand and the prevention of attacks on the other can be found in [123].…”

A Three-Stage Dynamic Assessment Framework for Industrial Control System Security Based on a Method of W-HMM

“…The industrial control system can be remotely interacted with and communicated with cloud services [ 1 ], cyber-physical systems [ 2 ], or edge devices in a highly networked environment [ 3 ]. Cyber-attacks are increasingly becoming a threat to ICS; thus, their security is critical [ 4 , 5 ]. Once an essential piece of equipment experiences a safety incident, it causes a shutdown of the system and even causes casualties [ 6 ].…”