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Dietz, Marietheres ; Schlette, Daniel ; Pernul, Günther

Harnessing Digital Twin Security Simulations for systematic Cyber Threat Intelligence

Dietz, Marietheres , Schlette, Daniel and Pernul, Günther (2022) Harnessing Digital Twin Security Simulations for systematic Cyber Threat Intelligence. In: The 46th IEEE Computer Society Signature Conference on Computers, Software, and Applications (COMPSAC 2022), June 27 - July 1 2022, Virtual Only.

Date of publication of this fulltext: 26 Jul 2022 07:58
Conference or workshop item
DOI to cite this document: 10.5283/epub.52629


Abstract

Understanding cybersecurity threats, attacks, and incidents is crucial for organizations to perform preventive or reactive measures. Nevertheless, detailed Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) is reluctantly shared. Digital twins, the virtual counterparts of real-world assets, offer security simulation capabilities. The simulation of attack scenarios on industrial control systems (ICS) with digital ...

Understanding cybersecurity threats, attacks, and incidents is crucial for organizations to perform preventive or reactive measures. Nevertheless, detailed Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) is reluctantly shared. Digital twins, the virtual counterparts of real-world assets, offer security simulation capabilities. The simulation of attack scenarios on industrial control systems (ICS) with digital twins yields valuable threat information. In our work, we outline the systematic steps towards a structured threat report starting with digital twin security simulations: We first present the course of action and define formal requirements for framework deployment. We then conduct an attack simulation with a prototypical digital twin application to evaluate our framework. Using the STIX2.1 standard, we assist CTI generation by providing utility tools guiding through the process steps. Our experimental results show that a STIX2.1 CTI report can be systematically constructed with the opportunity to customize according to the use case at hand. Adding digital twin security simulations to the list of CTI sources can provide shareable CTI and help organizations improve their security posture.



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Item typeConference or workshop item (Paper)
Page Range:pp. 789-797
DateJuly 2022
InstitutionsBusiness, Economics and Information Systems > Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik > Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftsinformatik I - Informationssysteme (Prof. Dr. Günther Pernul)
Informatics and Data Science > Department Information Systems > Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftsinformatik I - Informationssysteme (Prof. Dr. Günther Pernul)
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10.1109/COMPSAC54236.2022.00129DOI
Keywordsdigital twin, cyber threat intelligence, simulation, security analysis
Dewey Decimal Classification000 Computer science, information & general works > 004 Computer science
300 Social sciences > 330 Economics
StatusPublished
RefereedYes, this version has been refereed
Created at the University of RegensburgYes
Item ID52629

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