Sponsor: SecureAmerica Institute (2020-2021)
Recent advances in sensors, artificial intelligence (AI), machine tools and robotics, together with computing and communications technology are revolutionizing manufacturing. These advances allow rethinking manufacturing as a service. Concurrently, there is a shift in demand from high-volume manufacturing towards manufacturing of low-volume and unique custom products, at the point and time of need. In this emerging scenario, digital objects (design instructions and process recipes) may be shipped to either the end-user, who may “print” the part or get it printed by a manufacturing-as-a-service provider, or to a third party manufacturer. Physical supply chains are being supplanted by cyber-enabled “smart-manufacturing (SM)” supply chains where digital objects are transmitted over computer networks (via digital communication channels and shared cloud storage) and transformed into physical objects at the place of need. Enhancing, testing and assuring the built-in cybersecurity in the manufacturing systems, especially the emerging SM supply chains, by considering cybersecurity by system design is the goal of the present work.
This project will build a global, scalable, crowdsourcing based red-team-blue-team framework and testbed for to help certify the cybersecurity postures of all aspects of the SM systems. The manufacturers across manufacturing supply chains can stress test their legacy and emerging smart manufacturing standards, components, systems for built-in security. When fully developed, SecureAmerica Institute can offer this red-team-blue team testbed as service to its member SME and the US smart manufacturing stakeholders at large for security assessment of the defenses used in their supply/process chains.