Distributed Ledger for Cybersecurity: Issues and Challenges in Railways

Patwardhan, Amit; Thaduri, Adithya; Karim, Ramin

doi:10.3390/su131810176

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“…Other researchers have used BC technology to develop BC-based Cloud edge for railway applications 27 and BC platforms as commercial solutions for digital ticketing, logistics, supply chain processes 29 and taxonomy of cybersecurity issues and challenges. 135…”

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“…132 27 and BC platforms as commercial solutions for digital ticketing, logistics, supply chain processes 29 and taxonomy of cybersecurity issues and challenges. 135 Other. Other papers are qualitative (3 conceptual, 1 comparative study, and 1 case study) and consist of generalised security technologies, 136,137 cybersecurity issues and challenges, 15 cybersecurity maturity levels 138 and other security guidance within railways.…”

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A review on cybersecurity in railways

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Digitalisation is transforming the railway globally. One of the major considerations in digital transformation of any industry including the railway is the increased exposure to cyberattacks. The railway industry is vulnerable to these attacks because since the number of digital items and also number of interfaces between digital and physical components in the railway systems keep increasing. Increased number of items and interfaces require new frameworks, concepts and architectures to ensure the railway system’s resilience with respect to cybersecurity challenges, such as lack of proactiveness, lack of holistic perspective and obsolescence of safety systems exposed to current and future cyber threats landscape. To this date, there are several works carried out in the literature that studied the cybersecurity aspects and its application on railway infrastructure. However, to develop and implement an appropriate roadmap to cybersecurity in railways, there is a need of describing emerging challenges, and approaches to deal with these challenges and the possibilities and benefits of these. Hence, the objective of this paper is to provide a systematic review and outline cybersecurity emerging trends and approaches, and also to identify possible solutions by querying literature, academic and industrial, for future directions. The authors of this paper conducted separate searches through four popular databases, that is, Google Scholar, Scopus, Web of Science and IEEE explore. For the screening process, authors have used keywords with Boolean operators and database filters and identified 90 articles most relevant to the study domain. The analysis of 90 articles shows that majority of the cybersecurity studies lies within the railways are conceptual and lags in application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) based security. Like other industries, it is very important that railways should also follow latest security technologies, trends and train their workforce for cyber hygiene since railways are already in digitalization transition mode.

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