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Advanced Study Institute of the
NATO Science for Peace and Security Programme
Organized by Technische Universität München
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Dependable Software
Systems Engineering
August 3rd-12th, 2016
Directors
Alexander Pretschner, TU München, Germany
Doron Peled, Bar Ilan University, Israel
Objective
Almost all technical systems are nowadays in large part software systems themselves, or interface with software systems. The ubiquity of software systems requires them not to harm their environment (safety); and at the same time makes them vulnerable to security attacks with potentially considerable economic, political, and physical damage. Better understanding security and safety; improving the general quality of complex software systems (cyber defense and new technologies to support the construction of information technology infrastructure) and the respective development processes and technologies is a crucial challenge for the functioning of society.
Security and safety, or reliability, both are essential facets of the trustworthiness of modern cyber-physical systems. Cyber-physical systems more and more tightly combine and coordinate subsystems consisting of both computational and physical elements. Such systems become indispensable in the domains of aerospace, automotive, industry automation, and consumer appliances. Protecting data within these systems from attacks by external attackers (security), and protecting the environment from misbehaviour of these systems (safety) are two subjects traditionally considered separate. However, a closer look reveals that the techniques for construction and analysis of software-based systems used in both security and safety are not necessarily fundamentally different. Instead, many techniques are shared but come in different variants, e.g. attack and fault trees, or combined techniques of model checking and static analysis for safety and security properties.