Hololens augmented reality to foil hack attacks in factories
Airbus’s system works by scanning for anomalies in the networks that control its production lines, as well as behavioural changes in its machinery. If it finds any, it alerts the security team. That team quickly finds a fix for the problem, and instructs local engineers. In a plant where there may be hundreds of controllers or servers stacked to the ceiling – Airbus thinks augmented reality headsets like HoloLens will make it easier to find a fast solution.
Welcome to the augmented-reality “IT help desk”. AR lets workers channel specialist skills right into their field of view, helping them solve problems they couldn’t handle alone. A team led by Jones, who is head of cybersecurity research at the Airbus research centre in Newport, UK, designed the system to protect their aircraft production lines from attack. But they’re planning to put it on the open market to help workers at power stations, hospitals, water treatment plants and fuel refineries, for example.
Airbus envisions the system, which uses Microsoft’s HoloLens, as a fast way for factory workers to pull in expertise to deal with attacks like Stuxnet – the joint American and Israeli worm that wreaked havoc on Iran’s nuclear centrifuges in 2010.
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