Special Session Organized by

Paulo C. Bartolomeu, University of Aveiro, Portugal, and Amjad Gawanmeh, University of Dubai, UAE.

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Focus

Industrial cybersecurity has emerged as a key topic of research in recent years due to the massive connectivity brought by the Internet of Things and the rise of cyber-attacks against industrial assets. While fostering contemporary use-cases and applications, the ubiquitous access to the Internet has also exposed legacy operational technologies to new and challenging security threats that need to be addressed. This Special Session focuses on novel security, safety, and privacy-enhancing technologies for existing and future industrial applications.

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Topics under this session include:

Security, safety, or privacy-enhancing technologies in industrial systems

Modeling of cybersecurity threats

Applications of distributed ledger technologies/blockchains in Industry 4.0

Self-sovereign identity for M2M and decentralized device-to-device communication

Hardware advances for securing Industrial devices and networks

Quantitative evaluation and/or interconnections among non-functional aspects (e.g., reliability vs. safety, security vs. performance)

Run-time methods and technologies for Complex Event Detection systems

Software engineering methods and techniques for high dependable control systems

Case studies / lessons learned of security, safety, or privacy assessments of industrial systems