Robotics
Robotics: Vulnerabilities & Exploits
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- Insecure networking and communications
- Weak encryption algorithms
- Weak message authentication protocols
- No resilience to cascade attacks
- No mitigation controls for remote recovery
- No safety by design
- No security by design
- Weak supply chain provenance for field updates to the operating system, firmware, and software
- Lack of detection methods to classify OT/IoT events as true/false positives or negatives
- Weak mitigation with timeliness of security patches to prevent published exploits.
Robotics: Unprotected Attack Surface
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- Use of open-source middleware (e.g., ROS, SROS, ROS-2) with no security framework for cyber physical systems (CPS)
- Network admission without authentication
- Weak messaging without integrity
- Responsibility for protection is delegated to the network intrusion detection systems external to the CPS
- Dichotomy between IT/OT/IoT poses challenges to detection models based on anomaly and threat grammar
Robotics: Cyber Risks
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- Robot Bricking or Hijacking
- Malicious Nodes Join Production Network & Mission Systems
- Message Tampering
- Malicious Data Injection
- Man in the Middle (MITM) Attacks
- Untrusted Data to AI/ML Training Models and Digital Twins
- Tampered Updates to Onboard Components (Edge Gateway, LIDAR, Camera, IMU)
Simplified Solution for Robotics and AI/ML
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Symmera’s DIN platform services offer a simplified workflow, from factory to field, for fit-and-finish in site infrastructures with online or air-gapped devices. The orchestration services may be deployed On-Cloud or On-Premises as a SaaS platform.