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Using Assurance Cases to Prevent Malicious Behaviour from Targeting Safety Vulnerabilities

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We discuss an approach to modifying a safety assurance case to take into account malicious intent. We show how to analyze an existing assurance case to reveal additions and modifications that need to be made in order to deal with the effects of malicious intent aimed at safety critical applications, and where to make them.

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Bandur, V., Lawford, M., Mosser, S., Paige, R.F., Pantelic, V., Wassyng, A. (2023). Using Assurance Cases to Prevent Malicious Behaviour from Targeting Safety Vulnerabilities. In: Guiochet, J., Tonetta, S., Schoitsch, E., Roy, M., Bitsch, F. (eds) Computer Safety, Reliability, and Security. SAFECOMP 2023 Workshops. SAFECOMP 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14182. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40953-0_1

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