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Benefits

  • Enables early security stress-testing without hardware or prototype
  • Validates whether mission-critical processes retain CPU/network access under attack
  • Prevents uncontrolled power spikes triggered by malicious workloads
  • Reveals resource exhaustion weaknesses in shared compute and network architectures
  • Helps model combined attack + failure + safety scenarios
  • Provides a reference security baseline for later implementation and penetration testing

The Security and Cybersecurity Library in VisualSim Architect provides a structured method to evaluate system-level behavior under cyber intrusion, attack scenarios, and malicious event sequences. Rather than focusing on packet-level intrusion detection or encryption algorithms, the library is designed to assess the resilience of complete systems—including embedded platforms, semiconductors, ECUs, onboard computers, gateways, and IoT infrastructures—when subjected to cyber stress.

The objective is to determine whether the system continues to meet timing deadlines, preserve compute and network availability, prevent unsafe power or thermal excursions, and maintain functional correctness while absorbing, isolating, or mitigating cyber attacks. This capability is especially critical for distributed architectures, where computation and data are shared across edge devices, gateways, and cloud or data-center environments, and where cyber events can propagate across domains.

Overview

The Security and Cybersecurity library provides components that:

  • Inject simultaneous cyber attacks on software, network and resource-access paths
  • Apply malicious event patterns such as spoofing, replay, overload, starvation and privilege abuse
  • Introduce incorrect, out-of-order or conflicting control messages
  • Evaluate system resource starvation and overload effects
  • Validate availability and correctness under attack while the system continues to function
  • Analyze security-aware scheduling, resource quotas and priority controls

The goal is to analyze how cyber threats affect timing, power, resource usage and availability,and whether the system properly protects safety-critical and mission-critical workloads.

Key Parameters

  • Attack_Type — spoofing, replay, overload, DoS, packet burst, starvation, unauthorized control message
  • Attack_Trigger — time-based, event-based, sequence-based or continuously active
  • Privilege_Level — access rights of malicious entity or task
  • Resource_Quota_Target — compute, memory, network or power resource under attack
  • Availability_Criteria — minimum acceptable throughput or latency for critical workloads
  • Deadline_Profile — hard/soft deadline sensitivity under attack conditions
  • Power_Surge_Limit — safety envelope preventing unsafe consumption
  • Safety_Escalation_Policy — fallback or lockdown behavior when attacks produce unsafe states
  • Recovery_Action — traffic shaping, reallocation, shutdown or degraded-mode oscillation
  • Monitoring_Scope — security event detection window and diagnostic reporting

Analysis and Reports

  • System availability vs. attack intensity
  • Critical schedule-chain deadline violations under cyber load
  • Correctness of control-loop outputs during spoofed or corrupted inputs
  • Resource exhaustion tracking (compute, memory, network, power domains)
  • Power-surge prediction under malicious traffic or runaway tasks
  • Performance degradation maps across edge → gateway → data-center spans
  • Safety + security conflict zones (where security response may delay safety response)

Applications

  • IoT and gateway platforms connected to cloud/data-center workloads
  • Automotive ADAS / autonomous vehicles with remote connectivity
  • Aerospace/UAV telemetry and remote control systems
  • Smart-grid / industrial control / SCADA-style platforms
  • Smart consumer devices with safety-relevant behavioral logic
  • Semiconductor and SoC analysis for security-critical interconnect and memory access

Integrations

  • Traffic Modeling for realistic edge/cloud workload streams
  • Scheduling / RTOS for thread isolation and privilege domains
  • Functional Safety and Failure Analysis for combined threat scenarios
  • Power and Thermal libraries for abnormal power-surge analysis
  • Communication System for wired/wireless/cellular/5G/TSN attack vectors
  • Autonomous / ECUs / onboard compute libraries for security-critical cyber-physical control

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