Procedurally Provisioned Access Control for Robotic Systems

TL;DR

This paper introduces a framework for procedural provisioning of access control policies in robotic systems, enhancing security and compliance verification in robotic middleware like ROS2.

Contribution

It presents a novel framework for generating and verifying access control policies and artifacts in robotic software systems, improving security management.

Findings

Framework enables automated policy provisioning

Supports verification of transport artifacts and decision points

Enhances security compliance in robotic middleware

Abstract

Security of robotics systems, as well as of the related middleware infrastructures, is a critical issue for industrial and domestic IoT, and it needs to be continuously assessed throughout the whole development lifecycle. The next generation open source robotic software stack, ROS2, is now targeting support for Secure DDS, providing the community with valuable tools for secure real world robotic deployments. In this work, we introduce a framework for procedural provisioning access control policies for robotic software, as well as for verifying the compliance of generated transport artifacts and decision point implementations.