Advancing Security with Digital Twins: A Comprehensive Survey

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2505.17310v1
• Date: Thu, 22 May 2025 22:01:07 GMT
• Title: Advancing Security with Digital Twins: A Comprehensive Survey
• Authors: Blessing Airehenbuwa, Touseef Hasan, Souvika Sarkar, Ujjwal Guin,
• Abstract summary: Digital twins provide backward traceability, end-to-end visibility, and continuous verification of component integrity and behavior.<n>We present recent digital twin-based security implementations in cyber-physical systems, Internet of Things, cryptographic systems, detection of counterfeit electronics, intrusion detection, fault injection, and side-channel leakage.
• Score: 2.4936576553283287
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: The proliferation of electronic devices has greatly transformed every aspect of human life, such as communication, healthcare, transportation, and energy. Unfortunately, the global electronics supply chain is vulnerable to various attacks, including piracy of intellectual properties, tampering, counterfeiting, information leakage, side-channel, and fault injection attacks, due to the complex nature of electronic products and vulnerabilities present in them. Although numerous solutions have been proposed to address these threats, significant gaps remain, particularly in providing scalable and comprehensive protection against emerging attacks. Digital twin, a dynamic virtual replica of a physical system, has emerged as a promising solution to address these issues by providing backward traceability, end-to-end visibility, and continuous verification of component integrity and behavior. In this paper, we present a comprehensive survey of the application of digital twins based on their functional role and application domains. We comprehensively present recent digital twin-based security implementations, including their role in cyber-physical systems, Internet of Things, and cryptographic systems, detection of counterfeit electronics, intrusion detection, fault injection, and side-channel leakage. To the best of our knowledge, it is the first study to consolidate these security use cases into a unified reference. The paper also explores the integration of large language models with digital twins for enhanced security and discusses current challenges, solutions, and future research directions.

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