Bad Parts: Are Our Manufacturing Systems at Risk of Silent Cyberattacks?

Recent cyberattacks have highlighted the risk of physical equipment operating outside designed tolerances to produce catastrophic failures. A related threat is cyberattacks that change the design and manufacturing of a machine´s part, such as an automobile brake component, so it no longer functions properly. These risks stem from the lack of cyber-physical models to identify ongoing attacks as well as the lack of rigorous application of known cybersecurity best practices. To protect manufacturing processes in the future, research will be needed on a number of critical cyber-physical manufacturing security topics.