An innovative architecture for supporting cyber-physical security systems

Abstract

Physical and cybersecurity is an important topic to be managed in complex communication systems. Specialized equipments and devices help human operators in managing security issues. The security manager of such system shall be capable to correctly decode all the incoming inputs from perceiving subsystems, that can be of different types, and that shall be aggregated and interpreted in the actual environments in order to generate alarms and countermeasures. This paper presents the design of a Decision and Control Unit (DCU) for such systems. The DCU aims at helping the security manager of the system to take informed decision in real-time reducing him/her workload. The general requirements, the architecture and the design of this decision support and decision making system are presented. An example of alarm detection is finally outlined.