Reverse Engineering for Thwarting Digital Supply Chain Attacks in Critical Infrastructures: Ethical Considerations

Arne Nygård, Arvind Sharma, Sokratis Katsikas

2022

Abstract

A reverse engineering process includes disassembling to analyse, test, and document the functionality of the target system. In doing so for the purpose of uncovering vulnerabilities intentionally or unintentionally introduced through the digital supply chain in components used in industrial control systems within critical infrastructures, ethical issues arise. This paper addresses such issues, by leveraging a real-life use case in the power infrastructure. A set of principles that should govern an ethical framework geared to reverse engineering for cybersecurity and recommendations on action needed to complement such a framework are proposed.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Nygård A., Sharma A. and Katsikas S. (2022). Reverse Engineering for Thwarting Digital Supply Chain Attacks in Critical Infrastructures: Ethical Considerations. In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT, ISBN 978-989-758-590-6, pages 461-468. DOI: 10.5220/0011384300003283

in Bibtex Style

@conference{secrypt22,
author={Arne Nygård and Arvind Sharma and Sokratis Katsikas},
title={Reverse Engineering for Thwarting Digital Supply Chain Attacks in Critical Infrastructures: Ethical Considerations},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT,},
year={2022},
pages={461-468},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0011384300003283},
isbn={978-989-758-590-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT,
TI - Reverse Engineering for Thwarting Digital Supply Chain Attacks in Critical Infrastructures: Ethical Considerations
SN - 978-989-758-590-6
AU - Nygård A.
AU - Sharma A.
AU - Katsikas S.
PY - 2022
SP - 461
EP - 468
DO - 10.5220/0011384300003283