Kris Trinidad
Professor Armistead
CYSE 201S
February 12, 2023
Article Review
This cybersecurity study titled “Decentralizing Cyber Physical Systems for Resilience: An Innovative Case Study from A Cybersecurity Perspective”, focuses on some of the cybersecurity problems and challenges faced during the integration process. The article is looking to explore the blockchains within business models and ensure it “enables a state-aware power grid with high stability” (Liang 2023). Blockchain technology is an advanced mechanism within different databases that will authorize information to be shared in an organization/an organization’s network. Blockchain can be used to provide different security properties like availability, confidentiality, accountability, and integrity (Liang 2023). The article speaks on how advanced ICT, Information and Communications Technology, can create some security breaches and challenges because hackers can attack from both inside and outside out.
The case study is meant to find ways on how blockchain can be adopted in industrial networks, and there are four research questions they have. The first is “What are the cybersecurity challenges that the existing critical infrastructures in cyber-physical systems are faced with?” (Liang 2023). The second research question is “How blockchain technology can be integrated into the existing critical infrastructures to address those issues and where does the design complexity lie in this constrained environment to ensure the system is resistant to cyberattacks?” (Liang 2023). The third is “What consensus protocol should be adopted for the power grid architecture for better performance and zero trust management?” (Liang 2023). Lastly, the fourth research question is “How to evaluate the performance of a blockchain consensus protocol in terms of the efficiency and the scalability of the network” (Liang 2023).
The types of research methods used in this cybersecurity case study were using power grids, PoS census protocols, and PoS blockchains while categorizing four different potential attack services. They analyzed different cyber-physical systems and obstacles and “proposed an innovative Proof of Stake consensus protocol customized for cloud-based power grid architecture” (Liang 2023). They also proposed a committee formation scheme for PoS consensus protocol considering power system characteristics” (Liang 2023). They did an analysis based on the security properties of protocols and the systems architectural design of the blockchain for the power grid.
This topic relates to the principles of social sciences because it deals with cybersecurity crime and these cybersecurity problems can be relative and affect everyone using these databases. Technology is used in a lot of different ways nowadays, and it’s important to keep safe while using it. The concepts discussed in class relate to this article because there are security breaches discussed within this article similar to the ones discussed in some of the class modules, and we can identify the use of different human factors within this article. The topic relates to the challenges and concerns in the world because there are lots of cyber security breaches occurring and a lot of different technologies being created to access information within a business. The case study contributed to society because it proposed different things that can be resourceful/useful to society to protect themselves if they encounter situations like this. They also identified some future work in the making, so this will be a good article to look back to for more information on different cybersecurity issues.
References
Liang, X., Konstantinou, C., Shetty, S., Bandara, E., & Sun, R. (2023). Decentralizing Cyber Physical Systems for Resilience: An Innovative Case Study from A Cybersecurity Perspective. Computers & Security, 124, 102953. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cose.2022.102953