Assessing Cybersecurity of Public Safety Infrastructure

Abstract

Nowadays, sensors are deployed in public areas for instance with the scope of monitoring people’s behaviors for safety reasons. Such sensors (e.g., video cameras and air pollution sensors) gather data to be processed by services hosted on a distributed ICT infrastructure. Safety-related services aim to address specific goal such as criminal behavior detection, critical massive people movement prediction, critical pollution concentration detection, and traffic anomalies prediction. They have to be deployed in the ICT infrastructure in order to satisfy specific QoS requirements. Such infrastructure is therefore becoming a crucial asset to guarantee public safety, and its cybersecurity is of paramount importance. A simple denial of service at the infrastructure level, for instance, can have a tremendous impact on the ability to detect safety-critical event. Guarantee cybersecurity of critical public safety distributed ICT infrastructure poses a number of challenges including the difficulties of verifying weaknesses and vulnerabilities in capillary distributed and hybrid architecture. The trend of using 5G and Telco networks to connect sensors and cover areas where wired connections are not available is even making the scenario more complex. In this tutorial, Moon Cloud, a cybersecurity monitoring framework is presented. It provides a framework for governing cybersecurity in a distributed architecture offering both a holistic view and details on how to address the detected cybersecurity issues. In addition, the tutorial will also present MUSA a Framework for deploying services on distributed ICT infrastructure making them monitorable for security and privacy.

Filippo Berto

Research Fellow

My research interests include Cybersecurity, Computer Networks, Edge-Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems.