Sustainable Secure Management Against APT Attacks for Intelligent Embedded-Enabled Smart Manufacturing

Intelligent embedded-enable smart manufacturing is an important infrastructure for future industries. Increasing security threats are disturbing the normal operations of smart manufacturing. As a novel type of threat, an advanced persistent threat (APT) has the novel features of strong concealment, latency, and long-term entanglement, which can penetrate the core systems of smart manufacturing, especially for intelligent embedded systems, and cause great destruction from the cyber side to physical side. However, the existing security schemes cannot provide sustainable resource management, which causes the core system in smart manufacturing not to perform sustainable secure detection and defense against APTs. To address this challenge, this paper proposes a sustainable secure management mechanism for smart manufacturing against APTs. The proposed mechanism includes two parts: sustainable threat intelligence analysis and sustainable secure resource management. Sustainable threat intelligence analysis provides sustainable discovery of the indications of potential APTs, which has features of a weak signal, low correlation, and slow time variation. The sustainable secure resource management provides deep and continuous protection for intelligent embedded systems in smart manufacturing. The evaluations show the defense capabilities and the feasibility of the proposed mechanism

Automatic Control and Routing of Marine Vessels

Due to the intensive development of the global economy, many problems are constantly emerging connected to the safety of ships’ motion in the context of increasing marine traffic. These problems seem to be especially significant for the further development of marine transportation services, with the need to considerably increase their efficiency and reliability. One of the most commonly used approaches to ensuring safety and efficiency is the wide implementation of various automated systems for guidance and control, including such popular systems as marine autopilots, dynamic positioning systems, speed control systems, automatic routing installations, etc. This Special Issue focuses on various problems related to the analysis, design, modelling, and operation of the aforementioned systems. It covers such actual problems as tracking control, path following control, ship weather routing, course keeping control, control of autonomous underwater vehicles, ship collision avoidance. These problems are investigated using methods such as neural networks, sliding mode control, genetic algorithms, L2-gain approach, optimal damping concept, fuzzy logic and others. This Special Issue is intended to present and discuss significant contemporary problems in the areas of automatic control and the routing of marine vessels