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Recently, the interest of the educational community in laboratory- (lab-) based education has grown steadily. As remote and virtual labs have started to be a reliable alternative to traditional hands-on labs, security and safety issues are becoming increasingly important, especially in the case of remote laboratories, as their interconnected nature raises new and challenging issues. When multiple institutions are involved in a federated labs infrastructure, the complexity increases. Since a structured approach to assess safety and security for federated remote labs is missing, this paper aims at clarifying the general requirements to be considered and proposes a general concept for assessing safety and security in federated labs. Firstly, we analyze the current state on safety and security in remote labs by means of a literature review. Secondly, we investigate existing requirements and define operational requirements for a safety and security guideline in federated remote labs. Thirdly, we provide an overview about standardization approaches and existing guidelines and suggest a guideline, which matches our requirements analysis.
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Uckelmann, D., Mezzogori, D., Esposito, G., Neroni, M., Reverberi, D., Ustenko, M. (2021). Safety and Security in Federated Remote Labs – A Requirement Analysis. In: Auer, M., May, D. (eds) Cross Reality and Data Science in Engineering. REV 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1231. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52575-0_2
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