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Safety and Security For Intelligent Infrastructure
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC), in collaboration with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Heads Association, recently released white papers describing potential threats to safety, security, and privacy posed by intelligent infrast
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The Computing Community Consortium (CCC), in collaboration with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Heads Association, recently released white papers describing the threats to safety, security, and privacy posed by intelligent infrastructure.
The papers note such threats occur in multiple forms and at multiple scales.
Threats against individual devices could range from customers physically or electronically hacking their meters to cheat the power company, to a cybercriminal turning off power in a house as a form of physical ransomware.
In addition, networked devices are at risk because cybercriminals can infiltrate the servers that smart devices rely on.
Finally, because smart devices are deployed at scale, there could be hundreds of thousands of devices deployed and network connected running similar or identical hardware and software.
The study authors' contend new techniques are required to reduce the burden of understanding the current state of large collections of devices and managing them as a unit.
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