THE PROBLEM OF INFORMATION SECURITY OF ROBOTIC SYSTEMS: SOFTWARE ROBOTS

Ivanov Gleb Olegovich, Kamenskikh Anton Nikolayevich, Yuzhakov Alexander Anatolievich

Robotic process automation (RPA), based on the use of software robots, has proven to be one of the most sought-after technologies that has emerged in recent years and is used in automated systems to perform tasks of a programmatic nature in many industries, such as banking or manufacturing. As any new technology, RPA has a number of potential cybersecurity vulnerabilities that arise due to fundamental logical errors in the applied approach, or errors caused by human actions in the stages of implementation, configuration and operation of the technology. It is important to have a complete understanding of the relevant vulnerabilities and associated risks before integrating RPA into an enterprise automated system. The primary asset that RPA operates with is sensitive enterprise information. Data leakage and theft are two major threats. The widespread use of RPA technology in information security-sensitive sectors makes protecting RPA from cyberattacks an important challenge. Nevertheless, this topic has not yet been sufficiently studied in the academic environment and existing solutions have mainly focused on describing some threats. This article describes the technology RPA, formulates the problem of information security and the analysis of major threats to RPA, then proposed a solution by developing an ontology taking into account the specifics of.

Keywords:information security, automated system, robotic process automation, software robots, robotic system