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Björn Leander
Graduated as an M.Sc in Computer Science and Control Theory, from Luleå University of Technology in 2002. In 2019 he continued his academic career as an industrial Ph.D. Student at Mälardalen University as part of the ARRAY postgraduate school. He is also a cybersecurity engineer at ABB Process Automation, working mainly on R&D projects related to engineering and control.
About Björn's thesis
Industrial automation and control systems are responsible for running our most important infrastructures, providing electricity and clean water, producing medicine and food, along with many other services and products we take for granted. Protection of these systems is therefore of great importance.
The research project of Björn Leander investigates access control for industrial automation systems in the age of Industry 4.0, with a focus on dynamic and flexible manufacturing scenarios. Due to connectivity requirements and the dynamic properties of e.g., smart manufacturing, static access control models, often based on implicit trusts, are no longer viable. In his work, Björn provides solutions applicable to machine-to-machine as well as human-to-machine interactions, using a zero-trust security model.
Presentation:
Access Control in Dynamic Industrial Automation and Control Systems
Björn's publications
Licentiate Thesis
Access Control Models to secure Industry 4.0 Industrial Automation and Control Systems (Nov 2020)
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Journal article
Toward an ideal Access Control Strategy for Industry 4.0 Manufacturing Systems (Aug 2021) External link.Björn Leander External link., Aida Causevic External link., Hans Hansson External link., Tomas Lindström
Journal of IEEE Access (IEEE-Access)
Conference/Workshop Paper
Developing and Evaluating MQTT Connectivity for an Industrial Controller (Jun 2023) External link.Selma Opacin , Lejla Rizvanovic , Björn Leander External link., Aida Causevic External link., Saad Mubeen External link.11th International Conference on Cyber Physical Systems and IoT (CPS&IoT'23)
Access Control Enforcement Architectures for Dynamic Manufacturing Systems (Mar 2023) External link.Björn Leander External link., Aida Causevic External link., Tomas Lindström , Hans Hansson External link.20TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE (ICSA 2023)
Simulation Environment for Modular Automation Systems (Oct 2022) External link.Björn Leander External link., Tijana Markovic External link., Aida Causevic External link., Tomas Lindström , Hans Hansson External link., Sasikumar Punnekkat External link.48th Annual Conference of the Industrial Electronics Society (IECON 2022)
Anomaly Attack Detection in Wireless Networks Using DCNN (Oct 2022) External link.Van-Lan Dao External link., Björn Leander External link.IEEE 8th World Forum on Internet of Things (WFIoT2022)
A Questionnaire Study on the Use of Access Control in Industrial Systems (Sep 2021) External link.Björn Leander External link., Aida Causevic External link., Hans Hansson External link., Tomas Lindström
26th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2021)
Access Control for Smart Manufacturing Systems (Sep 2020) External link.Björn Leander External link., Aida Causevic External link., Hans Hansson External link., Tomas Lindström
2nd Workshop on Systems, Architectures, and Solutions for Industry 4.0 (SASI4)
Classification of PROFINET I/O Configurations utilizing Neural Networks (Sep 2019) External link.Bjarne Johansson External link., Björn Leander External link., Aida Causevic External link., Alessandro Papadopoulos External link., Thomas Nolte External link.The 24th IEEE Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA2019)
Cybersecurity Challenges in Large Industrial IoT Systems (Sep 2019) External link.Björn Leander External link., Aida Causevic External link., Hans Hansson External link.The 24th IEEE Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA2019)
Applicability of the IEC 62443 standard in Industry 4.0 / IIoT (Aug 2019) External link.Björn Leander External link., Aida Causevic External link., Hans Hansson External link.14th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2019)
Report - MRTC
A Recipe-based Algorithm for Access Control in Modular Automation Systems (Sep 2020) External link.Björn Leander External link., Aida Causevic External link., Hans Hansson External link.
Towards an Access Control in a Smart Manufacturing context External link.Björn Leander External link.