Björn Leander, Industrial Doctoral Student
Björn Leander graduated as a M.Sc in Computer Science and Control Theory, from Luleå University of Technology in 2002. After several years working in different fields of software development, he was employed at ABB Process Control Platform in 2013, where he now is a cybersecurity engineer. In 2020 Björn received a tech.licentiate degree from MDU.
Industrial control systems are undergoing a transformation driven by business requirements as well as technical advances, aiming towards increased connectivity, flexibility, and high level of modularity. That implies a need to revise existing cybersecurity measures. The overarching goal for this research project is to investigate and provide secure and robust solutions supporting these emergent system characteristics.
The focus area of the project is on access control, which is one of the major security mechanisms in any system, and that is largely affected by these advances. One of the major challenges targeted by the project is how to handle the inherently dynamic properties of the future industrial control systems, which ideally should be mirrored by similar flexibility in the access control policy rules as well as enforcement architectures. This project is carried out in collaboration between ABB PA/PCP and MDU.
Evaluation of an OPC UA-based Access Control Enforcement Architecture (Sep 2024) Björn Leander, Aida Causevic, Tomas Lindström , Hans Hansson 28th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2023)
Redundancy Link Security Analysis:\\An Automation Industry Perspective (Sep 2024) Björn Leander, Bjarne Johansson, Saad Mubeen, Mohammad Ashjaei, Tomas Lindström IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA'24)
InSecTT Technologies for the Enhancement of Industrial Security and Safety (Jun 2024) Sasikumar Punnekkat, Tijana Markovic, Miguel Leon Ortiz, Björn Leander, Alireza Dehlaghi Ghadim, Per Erik Strandberg Intelligent Secure Trustable Things, Studies in Computational Intelligence (SCI), Springer (SCI-INSECTT)
Enhanced Simulation Environment to Support Research in Modular Manufacturing Systems (Oct 2023) Björn Leander, Tijana Markovic, Miguel Leon Ortiz 49th Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society 2023 (IECON 2023)
An Authorization Service supporting Dynamic Access Control in Manufacturing Systems (Oct 2023) Ivan Radonjic , Enna Basic , Björn Leander, Tijana Markovic IEEE 9th World Forum on Internet of Things 2023 (WFIoT2023)
Dependability and Security aspects of Network-Centric Control (Sep 2023) Björn Leander, Bjarne Johansson, Tomas Lindström , Olof Holmgren , Thomas Nolte, Alessandro Papadopoulos 28th International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2023)
| Project Title | Status |
|---|---|
| ARRAY - Automation Region Research Academy | active |