Cyberpatterns: Unifying Design Patterns with Security and Attack Patterns

Cyberspace in increasingly important to people in their everyday lives for purchasing goods on the Internet, to energy supply increasingly managed remotely using Internet protocols. Unfortunately, this dependence makes us susceptible to attacks from nation states, terrorists, criminals and hactivists. Therefore, we need a better understanding of cyberspace, for which patterns, which are predictable regularities, may help to detect, understand and respond to incidents better. The inspiration for the workshop came from the existing work on formalising design patterns applied to cybersecurity, but we also need to understand the many other types of patterns that arise in cyberspace.

Cyberpatterns are predictable regularities in cyberspace helping us to design and implement more effective and secure systems, and to detect and respond to breaches, failures and deficiencies in operational systems.

Cyberpatterns is in its infancy and there are many challenges including:

• Developing a scientific foundation of pattern-oriented research methods
• Developing better engineering practice in novel application domains such as for cloud and cyberphysical systems
• Constructing a sharable knowledge-base to aid education of students, design of novel systems and the development of automated design tools
• Innovative applications of design patterns to pattern recognition and big data

Highlights:

• Presents the state-of-the-art in the novel field of cyberpatterns
• Demonstrates the application of patterns to cyber security and other key cyberspace domains
• Supports the development of a sound scientific, engineering and mathematical foundation for cyberspace

This important new book provides an introduction to and coverage of the state-of-the-art of cyberpatterns, from a theoretical standpoint and via practical applications, bringing together different interdisciplinary areas under one roof to portray a holistic view of the underlying principles and mechanisms of cyberpatterns.

Clive Blackwell is an Associate Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University specialising in cyber security and digital forensics

Hong Zhu is a Professor at Oxford Brookes University where he is Head of the Applied Formal Methods Research Group. He has a longstanding interest in design patterns and is the author of ‘Software design methodology: from principles to architectural styles’