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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)
Björn Leander
Book chapter
InSecTT Technologies for the Enhancement of Industrial Security and Safety (Jun 2024)
Sasikumar Punnekkat, Tijana Markovic, Miguel Leon Ortiz, Björn Leander, Alireza Dehlaghi Ghadim, Per Erik Strandberg
Intelligent Secure Trustable Things, Studies in Computational Intelligence (SCI), Springer (SCI-INSECTT)
Journal article
A modular Ice Cream Factory Dataset on Anomalies in Sensors to Support Machine Learning Research in Manufacturing Systems (Mar 2023)
Tijana Markovic, Miguel Leon Ortiz, Björn Leander, Sasikumar Punnekkat
IEEE Access (IEEE Access 2023)
Toward an ideal Access Control Strategy for Industry 4.0 Manufacturing Systems (Aug 2021)
Björn Leander, Aida Causevic, Hans Hansson, Tomas Lindström
Journal of IEEE Access (IEEE-Access)
Conference/Workshop Paper
Evaluation of an OPC UA-based Access Control Enforcement Architecture (Sep 2024)
Björn Leander, Aida Causevic, Tomas Lindström , Hans Hansson
28th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2023)
Redundancy Link Security Analysis:\An Automation Industry Perspective (Sep 2024)
Björn Leander, Bjarne Johansson, Saad Mubeen, Mohammad Ashjaei, Tomas Lindström
IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA'24)
Enhanced Simulation Environment to Support Research in Modular Manufacturing Systems (Oct 2023)
Björn Leander, Tijana Markovic, Miguel Leon Ortiz
49th Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society 2023 (IECON 2023)
An Authorization Service supporting Dynamic Access Control in Manufacturing Systems (Oct 2023)
Ivan Radonjic , Enna Basic , Björn Leander, Tijana Markovic
IEEE 9th World Forum on Internet of Things 2023 (WFIoT2023)
Dependability and Security aspects of Network-Centric Control (Sep 2023)
Björn Leander, Bjarne Johansson, Tomas Lindström , Olof Holmgren , Thomas Nolte, Alessandro Papadopoulos
28th International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2023)
Developing and Evaluating MQTT Connectivity for an Industrial Controller (Jun 2023)
Selma Opacin , Lejla Rizvanovic , Björn Leander, Aida Causevic, Saad Mubeen
11th International Conference on Cyber Physical Systems and IoT (CPS&IoT'23)
Access Control Enforcement Architectures for Dynamic Manufacturing Systems (Mar 2023)
Björn Leander, Aida Causevic, Tomas Lindström , Hans Hansson
20TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE (ICSA 2023)
Simulation Environment for Modular Automation Systems (Oct 2022)
Björn Leander, Tijana Markovic, Aida Causevic, Tomas Lindström , Hans Hansson, Sasikumar Punnekkat
48th Annual Conference of the Industrial Electronics Society (IECON 2022)
Anomaly Attack Detection in Wireless Networks Using DCNN (Oct 2022)
Van-Lan Dao, Björn Leander
IEEE 8th World Forum on Internet of Things (WFIoT2022)
A Questionnaire Study on the Use of Access Control in Industrial Systems (Sep 2021)
Björn Leander, Aida Causevic, Hans Hansson, Tomas Lindström
26th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2021)
Access Control for Smart Manufacturing Systems (Sep 2020)
Björn Leander, Aida Causevic, Hans Hansson, 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)
Bjarne Johansson, Björn Leander, Aida Causevic, Alessandro Papadopoulos, Thomas Nolte
The 24th IEEE Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA2019)
Cybersecurity Challenges in Large Industrial IoT Systems (Sep 2019)
Björn Leander, Aida Causevic, Hans Hansson
The 24th IEEE Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA2019)
Applicability of the IEC 62443 standard in Industry 4.0 / IIoT (Aug 2019)
Björn Leander, Aida Causevic, Hans Hansson
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)
Björn Leander, Aida Causevic, Hans Hansson
Towards an Access Control in a Smart Manufacturing context
Björn Leander