Measures to Design Secure Cyber-Physical Things

The paper deals with the problem of cyber-security on the earliest stages of cyber-physical systems’ development. Increasing security risks in the Internet of Things and smart cities makes it relevant to deal with all vulnerabilities and attacks on cyber-security. Authors propose main methods to avoid attack or at least to identify it and to take actions as soon as possible. cyber-security of smart things differs with classical information security as the object of study here is information environment and vulnerabilities are the main characteristic features of this environment, besides smart future things are meant to have unstable “borders.” In addition, when developing cyber-security measures for the cyber-physical things, engineers need to change their way of thinking and take into account interdependence and sustainability of cyber and physical levels of cyber-physical systems (the concepts which lie in the future things and smart things) in order to prepare for such scenarios where cyber-risks can arise and affect the operation of physical systems.