A critical review of digital twin confidentiality in a smart city

Digital twin technology is used to enable businesses to create efficiencies by modelling their physical counterparts. Use cases include modelling a physical device through its lifecycle to perform predictive maintenance, product training, future product development, product performance enhancement, or using the digital twin to control its physical counterpart to perform tasks on IoT or other connected devices. A digital twin leads to less downtime on a physical device as all the modelling or testing is conducted in a virtual environment meaning the physical device can continue to perform the tasks required of it. The digital twin and its physical counterpart are linked and synchronised through heterogeneous network connections. This poses a cyber security question of whether there is a risk of using a digital twin within a smart city. This paper aims to critically examine the confidentiality requirements for a digital twin in a smart city by performing a critical analysis of current literature.

Citation

Kismul, A., Al-Khateeb, H., Jahankhani, H. (2023). A Critical Review of Digital Twin Confidentiality in a Smart City. In: Jahankhani, H. (eds) Cybersecurity in the Age of Smart Societies. Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications. Springer, Cham, pp 437–450. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20160-8_25

Type

Conference contribution

Language

en

Description

This is an accepted manuscript of an article published by Springer in Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications on 03/01/2023, available online: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-20160-8_25 The accepted version of the publication may differ from the final published version. For re-use please see the publisher's terms and conditions.

Series/Report no.

Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications

ISSN

1613-5113

ISBN

978-3-031-20159-2

Collections

Faculty of Science and Engineering