Secure and safety-critical vs. insecure, non safety-critical embedded systems: do they require completely different design approaches?

  • Authors:
  • Peter Marwedel;Catherine Gebotys

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Dortmund and ICD, Germany;University of Waterloo, Canada

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE/ACM/IFIP international conference on Hardware/software codesign and system synthesis
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

As we move forward into the era of ubiquitous pervasive computing, the design of secure safety-critical systems will become increasingly complex. For example, future automobiles will become the ultimate mobile wireless device containing a distributed network with multiple vendor software and hardware. However the car's embedded software which is expected to increase in size by 100 fold, will create a significant impact on the overall system safety. Furthermore wireless communications may create the possibility of terrorists or attackers gaining control of the automobile, hence security is also an important issue. How will designers cope with this complexity while at the same time ensure safety and security? Will new design approaches be required? Or can current design methodologies be used with new metrics, safety and security? This panel will bring together experts from the safety-critical industry, security industry, and experts from the insecure non-safety critical industry.