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Towards a Secure DevOps Approach for Cyber-Physical Systems: An Industrial Perspective

Abstract

With the expansion of cyber-physical systems (CPSs) across critical and regulated industries, systems must be continuously updated to remain resilient. At the same time, they should be extremely secure and safe to operate and use. The DevOps approach caters to business demands of more speed and smartness in production, but it is extremely challenging to implement DevOps due to the complexity of critical CPSs and requirements from regulatory authorities. In this study, expert opinions from 33 European companies expose the gap in the current state of practice on DevOps-oriented continuous development and maintenance. The study contributes to research and practice by identifying a set of needs. Subsequently, the authors propose a novel approach called Secure DevOps and provide several avenues for further research and development in this area. The study shows that, because security is a cross-cutting property in complex CPSs, its proficient management requires system-wide competencies and capabilities across the CPSs development and operation.
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Category

Academic article

Language

English

Author(s)

  • Pekka Kalevi Abrahamsson
  • Goetz Botterweck
  • Hadi Ghanbari
  • Martin Gilje Jaatun
  • Petri Kettunen
  • Tommi Mikkonen
  • Anila Mjeda
  • Jürgen Münch
  • Anh Nguyen Duc
  • Barbara Russo
  • Xiaofeng Wang

Affiliation

  • SINTEF Digital / Software Engineering, Safety and Security
  • University of Helsinki
  • University of Jyväskylä
  • Aalto University
  • Ireland
  • Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
  • Reutlingen University
  • University of South-Eastern Norway

Year

2020

Published in

International Journal of Systems and Software Security and Protection (IJSSSP)

ISSN

2640-4265

Volume

11

Issue

2

Page(s)

38 - 57

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