Privacy elasticity: building resilient data protection for cyber physical systems

Abstract

In an increasingly interconnected world, cyber-physical systems play a pivotal role in our daily lives, spanning industries from healthcare to transportation and smart cities.With the growing use of smart devices, the privacy concerns are also increasing manifold.This research work depicts novel viewpoints on recommendations for privacy aspects within the eco-systems of cyber-physical systems, aiming to address these critical challenges. The developing nature of privacy design puts impact on non-static authorization, facilitating fine-grained access control depending on real-time situations. End-to-end security ensures data protection throughout its lifecycle, while robust enrolment and authentication APIs enhance identity verification. Distributed authorization and decentralized authentication mechanisms offer a diversified security approach, reducing the reliance on centralized systems. Interoperable privacy profiles establish consistency and compatibility in multi-system interactions, promoting a high level of privacy assurance. Abstraction of a secure environment protects the underlying physical parts, working as a defense against possible security threats. Such innovative solutions are crucial to maintain the confidentiality of sensitive data and ensure the security of cyber-physical systems. With the rapid development of technology, these privacy design guidelines should be realized and adopted in practice so as to protect both people and organizations, and to maximize the potential of cyber-physical systems and minimize the risk associated with them. This investigation highlights that privacy design is a dynamic and moving target in the rapidly changing technology landscape.