Presented at SXSW 2018, “Rogue Robots and the Potential for Cyberattack” examines the challenges facing today’s industrial robots.
Research
Here are the research papers mentioned in the talk;
- The Crisis of Connected Cars: When Vulnerabilities Affect the CAN Standard
- Trend Micro smart factory research;
- Smart Factory Security Part 1: Looking at the impact of poor cybersecurity in factories
- Smart Factory Security Part 2: What Management Should Know in Securing a Factory
- Smart Factory Security Part 3: Ransomware countermeasures for factory operations
- Smart Factory Security Part 4: Lessons Learned from the WannaCry Attack
- Rogue Robots, Testing the Limits of an Industrial Robot’s Security
References
During the talk, I made a number of references. Some were just to keep things light but I think they’re all interesting (which is why I said them). Here are those references;
- The BB-8 Sphero toy
- The new “The Jetsons” comic series
- UBTech Alpha 1 Pro entertainment & educational robot
- iRobot Roomba robot vacuums
- Skydio R1 self-flying camera
- Amazon Prime Air drone delivery
- Amazon Robotics, formerly Kiva Systems, warehouse robots
- 2018-Mar-06 article from The Verge, “Uber’s self-driving trucks are now delivering freight in Arizona”
- 2014-Jun-04 article from Popular Science, “Robot Truck Convoy Tested In Nevada”
- the CAN bus (ISO-11898) standard for in-vehicle networks
- IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence Index
- 2017 Data Breach Investigations Report from Verizon
- U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis reporting on U.S. GDP
- ICS-CERT Annual Vulnerability Coordination Report