A Framework for Measuring the Costs of Security at Runtime

Igor Ivkic, Harald Pichler, Mario Zsilak, Andreas Mauthe, Markus Tauber

2019

Abstract

In Industry 4.0, Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are formed by components, which are interconnected with each other over the Internet of Things (IoT). The resulting capabilities of sensing and affecting the physical world offer a vast range of opportunities, yet, at the same time pose new security challenges. To address these challenges there are various IoT Frameworks, which offer solutions for managing and controlling IoT-components and their interactions. In this regard, providing security for an interaction usually requires performing additional security-related tasks (e.g. authorisation, encryption, etc.) to prevent possible security risks. Research currently focuses more on designing and developing these frameworks and does not satisfactorily provide methodologies for evaluating the resulting costs of providing security. In this paper we propose an initial approach for measuring the resulting costs of providing security for interacting IoT-components by using a Security Cost Modelling Framework. Furthermore, we describe the necessary building blocks of the framework and provide an experimental design showing how it could be used to measure security costs at runtime.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Ivkic I., Pichler H., Zsilak M., Mauthe A. and Tauber M. (2019). A Framework for Measuring the Costs of Security at Runtime.In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER, ISBN 978-989-758-365-0, pages 488-494. DOI: 10.5220/0007761604880494

in Bibtex Style

@conference{closer19,
author={Igor Ivkic and Harald Pichler and Mario Zsilak and Andreas Mauthe and Markus Tauber},
title={A Framework for Measuring the Costs of Security at Runtime},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,},
year={2019},
pages={488-494},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0007761604880494},
isbn={978-989-758-365-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,
TI - A Framework for Measuring the Costs of Security at Runtime
SN - 978-989-758-365-0
AU - Ivkic I.
AU - Pichler H.
AU - Zsilak M.
AU - Mauthe A.
AU - Tauber M.
PY - 2019
SP - 488
EP - 494
DO - 10.5220/0007761604880494