5 papers
Protecting the Integrity of IoT Sensor Data and Firmware With A Feather-Light Blockchain Infrastructure
Daniel Reijsbergen, Aung Maw, Sarad Venugopalan +3
Smart cities deploy large numbers of sensors and collect a tremendous amount of data from them. For example, Advanced Metering Infrastructures (AMIs), which consist of physical met…
EPICTWIN: An Electric Power Digital Twin for Cyber Security Testing, Research and Education
Nandha Kumar Kandasamy, Sarad Venugopalan, Tin Kit Wong +1
Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) rely on advanced communication and control technologies to efficiently manage devices and the flow of information in the system. However, a wide variet…
Decentralized Lightweight Detection of Eclipse Attacks on Bitcoin Clients
Bithin Alangot, Daniel Reijsbergen, Sarad Venugopalan +1
Clients of permissionless blockchain systems, like Bitcoin, rely on an underlying peer-to-peer network to send and receive transactions. It is critical that a client is connected t…
The Security Reference Architecture for Blockchains: Towards a Standardized Model for Studying Vulnerabilities, Threats, and Defenses
Ivan Homoliak, Sarad Venugopalan, Qingze Hum +3
Blockchains are distributed systems, in which security is a critical factor for their success. However, despite their increasing popularity and adoption, there is a lack of standar…
A Security Reference Architecture for Blockchains
Ivan Homoliak, Sarad Venugopalan, Qingze Hum +1
Due to their interesting features, blockchains have become popular in recent years. They are full-stack systems where security is a critical factor for their success. The main focu…