Sicherheit und rechtliche Herausforderungen in Bezug auf Cloud Computing und Kritische Infrastruktur-IT

The prevalence of machine-to-machine (M2M) will continue to increase because of the connection and interlinking of services in the domain of critical infrastructures (e.g. “smart grids”, traffic management or surveillance systems). This is leading to a constant rise of required computational and storage resources. As field systems typically offer only limited computing and storage capabilities and as many applications require a global view to integrated data from various devices, a natural location to store data and perform analysis tasks is in the Cloud, where an abundance of flexible resources can be used. However, this results in a number of security and privacy challenges in combination with some legal and technical considerations that need to be addressed. In this paper, we will investigate and categorize the above challenges associated with using the Cloud in a critical infrastructure and M2M context.