Mitigating emergent computation: the need for new approaches in systems engineering

Sergey Bratus

doi:10.1117/12.2589675

12 April 2021 Mitigating emergent computation: the need for new approaches in systems engineering

Sergey Bratus

Proceedings Volume 11751, Disruptive Technologies in Information Sciences V; 1175108 (2021) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2589675
Event: SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing, 2021, Online Only

Abstract

Modern computing systems demonstrate strong propensity for unintended, emergent computations and the related unintended, emergent programming models that enable or amplify cyber-attacks. Computing mechanisms built for a particular purpose and with particular intended models of execution prove to be capable of executing unintended computing tasks outside of their original specification and their designers and programmers' mental models. We start examining systems for signs of emergent behavior (with methods such as fuzz-testing) only after they are fully built. However, a system's exploitability models and propensity for emergent execution arise-and can also therefore be mitigated-already at the design stage.

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Sergey Bratus "Mitigating emergent computation: the need for new approaches in systems engineering", Proc. SPIE 11751, Disruptive Technologies in Information Sciences V, 1175108 (12 April 2021); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2589675

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