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Secure Mobile Technologies for Proactive Critical Infrastructure Situational Awareness
Trustworthy operation of our national critical infrastructures, such as the
electricity grid, against adversarial parties and accidental failures requires
constant and secure monitoring capabilities. In this paper, Eyephone is
presented to leverage secure smartphone sensing and data acquisition
capabilities and enable pervasive sensing of the national critical
infrastructures. The reported information by the smartphone users will notify
the control center operators about particular accidental or malicious remote
critical infrastructure incidents. The reporting will be proactive regarding
potentially upcoming failures given the system's current risky situation, e.g.,
a tree close to fall on a power grid transmission line. The information will
include various modalities such as images, video, audio, time and location.
Eyephone will use system-wide information flow analysis and policy enforcement
to prevent user privacy violations during the incident reportings. A working
proof-of-concept prototype of Eyephone is implemented. Our results show that
Eyephone allows secure and effective use of smartphones for real-time
situational awareness of our national critical infrastructures.Comment: 6 pages, IEEE HST 201