However, he said, hackers don't need the budget of a government to attack an embedded system.
He also cited a power outage in the eastern Ukraine in December 2015 believed to be the result of a cyberattack by Russia. (3) Stuxnet made its way into Siemens PLC controllers not on the Internet by way of thumb drives. In his ESC Boston presentation, (2) Barr cited several attacks thought to be the work of governments, including Stuxnet, which targeted Iranian centrifuges and is reportedly the work of the United States and Israel. Yet another NSA-supported initiative in the state of Georgia will extend cybersecurity education to middle schoolers. Mengjun Xie, a University of Arkansas Little Rock associate professor of computer science known for his work in cybersecurity, network systems, data analytics, and social-network analysis in bioinformatics, is working to build a virtual cybersecurity lab. And initiatives funded by United States National Security Agency are looking to make the public savvier about cybersecurity. Nevertheless, Barr made the case for cybersecurity to engineers at an Embedded Systems Conference Boston presentation in May. Consider: "For the sixth straight year, 'password' joins '123456' as the two most commonly used passwords on SplashData's annual list of 'Worst Passwords.' Use of any of the passwords on this list would put users at grave risk for identity theft." (1)
Embedded-systems designers can be unwilling to design-in security features that their customers are unwilling to pay for.Īnd as for consumers-many simply can't be bothered with security-even if it's virtually free. But getting secure products into the real world can be a tough sell. Everybody talks about cybersecurity, but is anybody doing anything about it? To be sure, researchers at organizations like imec are working on cybersecurity technologies, and security consultants like Michael Barr, Barr Group founder and CTO, are emphasizing the importance of cybersecurity to the embedded-systems engineering community.
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