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This work‐in‐progress paper presents a proposal on how to consider cyber security for the middleware system architecture. The text discusses the steps needed to incorporate cyber security aspects to the Interoperability Reference Model Architecture. The Interoperability Reference Model Architecture was chosen since it provides an effective communication process among components of distributed Real‐Time Systems. The process reduces architectural layers and the development effort due to the formalized reference model design. Also, it may be pointed that the decision for the selection of this framework benefits from a previous research in which the Interoperability Reference Model Architecture was applied in a Real‐Time System prototype to test and validate it. In this research, the focus will be the incorporation of cyber security aspects to Interoperability Reference Model Architecture.