Science Hackathons for Cyberphysical System Security Research: Putting CPS testbed platforms to good use
This addresses the problem of enhancing collaborative research in cyber-physical system security for researchers, but it is incremental as it builds on existing hackathon methods.
The paper tackled the challenge of developing diverse and complex cyber-physical system scenarios for security research by organizing a science hackathon to create a common use-case on a shared testbed platform, resulting in a qualitative evaluation to improve future events.
A challenge is to develop cyber-physical system scenarios that reflect the diversity and complexity of real-life cyber-physical systems in the research questions that they address. Time-bounded collaborative events, such as hackathons, jams and sprints, are increasingly used as a means of bringing groups of individuals together, in order to explore challenges and develop solutions. This paper describes our experiences, using a science hackathon to bring individual researchers together, in order to develop a common use-case implemented on a shared CPS testbed platform that embodies the diversity in their own security research questions. A qualitative study of the event was conducted, in order to evaluate the success of the process, with a view to improving future similar events.