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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Internet Things
Sec. Security, Privacy and Authentication
Volume 3 - 2024 |
doi: 10.3389/friot.2024.1436023
This article is part of the Research Topic Socio-technical Cybersecurity and Resilience in the Internet of Things View all 8 articles
Exploiting User-Centred Design to Secure Industrial Control Systems
Provisionally accepted- 1 Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
- 2 City University of London, London, United Kingdom
Due to an increase in the number of attacks on Industrial Control Systems (ICS), the security of these systems is now of paramount concern. Many solutions have been proposed to defend such systems, particularly those adopting Machine Learning (ML). The goal of this study is to increase the likelihood of the solution being deployed into a real environment. As part of that, multiple interviews were held with industry experts who have been embedded within ICS cyber-security for decades. The findings revealed that the current security solutions for ICS lack the sophistication required to be adopted due to flawed assumptions made about the end-user. Therefore, this work provides personas of each end-user group within ICS that need to be taken into consideration when designing a security solution. In addition, wireframes are provided showing what a desired solution could look like. By sharing these findings, it is hoped to inform those working within this space and increase the likelihood of their solutions being adopted within a real environment. Furthermore, the expert panel requested a number of features that do not currently exist within the ICS cyber-security space, therefore, by sharing these with the wider community, it is hoped that the field will move closer towards providing solutions containing these features.
Keywords: visualisation, user-centred design, ICS, IDS, Cyber-security
Received: 21 May 2024; Accepted: 27 Aug 2024.
Copyright: © 2024 Nunes, Kayan, Burnap, Perera and Dykes. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Matthew Nunes, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
Pete Burnap, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
Jason Dykes, City University of London, London, EC1V 0HB, United Kingdom
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