APA
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Repetto, M., Striccoli, D., Piro, G., Carrega, A., Boggia, G., & Bolla, R. (2021). An Autonomous Cybersecurity Framework for Next-generation Digital Service Chains. Journal of Network and Systems Management (NSM), 29, 37. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10922-021-09607-7
Chicago/Turabian
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Repetto, Matteo, Domenico Striccoli, Giuseppe Piro, Alessandro Carrega, Gennaro Boggia, and Raffaele Bolla. “An Autonomous Cybersecurity Framework for Next-Generation Digital Service Chains.” Journal of Network and Systems Management (NSM) 29 (May 2021): 37.
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Repetto, Matteo, et al. “An Autonomous Cybersecurity Framework for Next-Generation Digital Service Chains.” Journal of Network and Systems Management (NSM), vol. 29, May 2021, p. 37, doi:10.1007/s10922-021-09607-7.
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@article{repetto2021a,
title = {An Autonomous Cybersecurity Framework for Next-generation Digital Service Chains},
year = {2021},
month = may,
journal = {Journal of Network and Systems Management (NSM)},
pages = {37},
volume = {29},
doi = {10.1007/s10922-021-09607-7},
author = {Repetto, Matteo and Striccoli, Domenico and Piro, Giuseppe and Carrega, Alessandro and Boggia, Gennaro and Bolla, Raffaele},
month_numeric = {5}
}
🔬 Towards Autonomous, Programmable, and Adaptive Cybersecurity for Digital Service Chains
Modern digital services increasingly span heterogeneous cloud infrastructures, edge environments, communication networks, and IoT ecosystems. Their distributed, multi-domain nature introduces critical challenges for threat detection, trust management, access control, and coordinated incident response.
Our research proposes a service-centric cybersecurity architecture built around four fundamental components:
🔹 Local Agents: Collect security context, monitor distributed resources, and enforce protection policies.
🔹 Security Manager: Integrates context brokering, programmable inspection, security analytics, and policy-driven response orchestration.
🔹 Identity Management and Access Control: Protects sensitive information and regulates authorized interactions across administrative domains.
🔹 Security Dashboard: Provides situational awareness, investigation capabilities, and human oversight.
The central innovation lies in combining composability, programmability, and autonomous security orchestration to dynamically adapt monitoring granularity, correlate heterogeneous security events, and coordinate mitigation actions.
The paper also presents an illustrative connected-vehicle scenario involving cloud, network, application, and traffic service providers to demonstrate the intended architectural workflow.
🎯 Key contribution: A reference architecture for evolving beyond infrastructure-centric protection towards embedded, service-centric security across dynamic digital value chains.
The work is an architectural and methodological contribution; experimental performance validation remains outside its scope.
🛡️ Cybersecurity Without Borders: The Rise of Autonomous Digital Defense! 🌐⚡
What happens when a cyberattack targets a digital service spanning multiple clouds, networks, organizations, and IoT devices?
Traditional perimeter-based security is no longer enough.
Our research introduces an autonomous cybersecurity framework for next-generation digital service chains, designed to bring security capabilities directly into distributed services and coordinate their protection across administrative domains.
Through a manga-inspired journey, discover how programmable monitoring, intelligent threat analysis, identity management, and policy-driven automated responses can work together to protect interconnected systems.
🚀 The vision: Cybersecurity that continuously monitors, adapts, and responds to emerging threats while respecting trust, privacy, and access-control requirements.
