Threat Modeling and Attack Simulations of Smart Cities: A Literature Review and Explorative Study

Robert Lagerström, Wenjun Xiong, Mathias Ekstedt

2020

Abstract

Digitization has made enterprises and inter-enterprise organizations (e.g. smart cities) increasingly vulnerable to cyber attacks. Malicious actors compromising computers can have potential damage and disruptions. To mitigate cyber threats, the first thing is to identify vulnerabilities, which is difficult as it requires (i) a detailed understanding of the inter-enterprise architecture, and (ii) significant security expertise. Threat modeling supports (i) by documenting the design of the system architecture, and attack simulation supports (ii) by automating the identification of vulnerabilities. This paper presents a systematic literature review and provides a research outlook for threat modeling and attack simulations of smart cities. The results show that little research has been done in this area, and promising approaches are being developed.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Lagerström R., Xiong W. and Ekstedt M. (2020). Threat Modeling and Attack Simulations of Smart Cities: A Literature Review and Explorative Study. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy - Volume 1: ICISSP, ISBN 978-989-758-399-5, pages 369-376. DOI: 10.5220/0008921903690376

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icissp20,
author={Robert Lagerström and Wenjun Xiong and Mathias Ekstedt},
title={Threat Modeling and Attack Simulations of Smart Cities: A Literature Review and Explorative Study},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy - Volume 1: ICISSP,},
year={2020},
pages={369-376},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0008921903690376},
isbn={978-989-758-399-5},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy - Volume 1: ICISSP,
TI - Threat Modeling and Attack Simulations of Smart Cities: A Literature Review and Explorative Study
SN - 978-989-758-399-5
AU - Lagerström R.
AU - Xiong W.
AU - Ekstedt M.
PY - 2020
SP - 369
EP - 376
DO - 10.5220/0008921903690376