CyRes: Towards operational cyber resilience

Abstract

Existing approaches to cyber security in the automotive sector are not fit to deliver the resilience required for safe mass deployment of advanced driving functions and intelligent mobility services. This paper promotes an innovative approach to operational cyber resilience, the CyRes methodology, which aims to enable robust and resilient engineering practices in this sector from design to manufacture to operation. CyRes is based on three principles: engineered differences; detecting, understanding and acting on cyber events; and proactive updates. The aim of this short paper is to raise awareness of the problems and the many intellectual challenges in this particular sector. CyRes is an exciting opportunity for engineers and computer scientists to transfer widely studied, mature methods, such as those developed by the runtime verification community and the self-adaptive systems community, for cyber resilience.