Trustworthiness of Cyber Physical Systems: PETRAS at US NIST workshop

Michael Huth, technical lead of the PETRAS theme Harnessing Economic Value, was invited to attend a workshop at US NIST’s Gaithersburgh campus on Exploring the Dimensions of Trustworthiness of Cyber Physical Systems on 30 August 2016.

He gave a short keynote entitled From Risk Management to Risk Engineering of Cyber Physical Systems. It argued for exploring how risk management practices can be applied, adopted, and integrated in the conceptualisation, realisation, and assurance of cyber physical systems, the three so called facets as described in the US NIST report Framework for Cyber Physical Systems.  Such integration of risk management in engineering processes would lead to risk engineering the various tradeoffs between different design, deployment, and validation concerns of cyber physical systems. It may also inform organisational risk management at the operational and strategic level.

The above US NIST initiative is ongoing and seeks international input and collaboration. Professor Huth plans to inform and influence this US NIST initiative through communication of PETRAS IoT Hub outputs and targeted collaborations.