Secure embedded patterns for logging

What is it about?

Embedded devices are becoming ever more prevalent today. This includes household IoT devices, but also controllers in industrial, car, and medical environments. Often, a lot of missuses, faults, or even direct attacks happen that might get missed. It is very beneficial to keep track of such actions by active logging, especially when considering distributed and complex systems that have a large number of sensors and actuators. Here, we present two patterns that can be applied during the design phase to help the developers in preparing appropriate security logging handlers aimed for these constrained embedded devices. An example is also given when applied to a Battery Management System (BMS).

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Photo by Waldemar Brandt on Unsplash

Why is it important?

First work that takes into consideration patterns for embedded systems in the domain of secure logging during the design phase.