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As more attention is paid to security in the context of control systems and as attacks occur to real control systems throughout the world, it has become clear that some of the most nefarious attacks are those that evade detection. The term…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Carlos Murguia , Iman Shames , Justin Ruths , Dragan Nesic

This paper presents a secure reinforcement learning (RL) based control method for unknown linear time-invariant cyber-physical systems (CPSs) that are subjected to compositional attacks such as eavesdropping and covert attack. We consider…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-06 Sayak Mukherjee , Veronica Adetola

Transformer-based malware detection systems operating on graph modalities such as control flow graphs (CFGs) achieve strong performance by modeling structural relationships in program behavior. However, their robustness to adversarial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Andrew Wheeler , Kshitiz Aryal , Maanak Gupta

The threat of attack faced by cyber-physical systems (CPSs), especially when they play a critical role in automating public infrastructure, has motivated research into a wide variety of attack defence mechanisms. Assessing their…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Yuqi Chen , Christopher M. Poskitt , Jun Sun , Sridhar Adepu , Fan Zhang

In workflows and business processes, there are often security requirements on both the data, i.e. confidentiality and integrity, and the process, e.g. separation of duty. Graphical notations exist for specifying both workflows and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-04-09 Thomas Bauereiss , Dieter Hutter

The adoption of cyber-physical systems (CPS) is on the rise in complex physical environments, encompassing domains such as autonomous vehicles, the Internet of Things (IoT), and smart cities. A critical attribute of CPS is robustness,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-27 Changjian Zhang , Parv Kapoor , Romulo Meira-Goes , David Garlan , Eunsuk Kang , Akila Ganlath , Shatadal Mishra , Nejib Ammar

The proliferation and application of machine learning based Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) have allowed for more flexibility and efficiency in the automated detection of cyber attacks in Industrial Control Systems (ICS). However, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Eirini Anthi , Lowri Williams , Matilda Rhode , Pete Burnap , Adam Wedgbury

Industrial control systems (ICSs) are widely used and vital to industry and society. Their failure can have severe impact on both economics and human life. Hence, these systems have become an attractive target for attacks, both physical and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Moshe Kravchik , Asaf Shabtai

Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are being increasingly utilized for critical applications. CPS combines sensing and computing elements, often having multi-layer designs with networking, computational, and physical interfaces, which provide…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Julia Boone , Fatemeh Afghah

As AI agents become increasingly autonomous and capable, ensuring their security against vulnerabilities such as prompt injection becomes critical. This paper explores the use of information-flow control (IFC) to provide security guarantees…

In the swift evolution of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) within intelligent environments, especially in the industrial domain shaped by Industry 4.0, the surge in development brings forth unprecedented security challenges. This paper…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-15 Jiajun Shen , Fengjun Li , Morteza Hashemi , Huazhen Fang

This paper deals with analysis, simultaneous detection of faults and attacks, fault-tolerant control and attack-resilient of cyber-physical control systems. In our recent work, it has been observed that an attack detector driven by an input…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-14 Linlin Li , Steven X. Ding , Maiying Zhong , Dong Zhao , Yang Shi

Cyber-physical systems are at the intersection of digital technology and engineering domains, rendering them high-value targets of sophisticated and well-funded cybersecurity threat actors. Prominent cybersecurity attacks on CPS have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Shaofei Huang , Christopher M. Poskitt , Lwin Khin Shar

Pairwise Causal Discovery is the task of determining causal, anticausal, confounded or independence relationships from pairs of variables. Over the last few years, this challenging task has promoted not only the discovery of novel machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Felipe Giori , Flavio Figueiredo

The vast majority of today's critical infrastructure is supported by numerous feedback control loops and an attack on these control loops can have disastrous consequences. This is a major concern since modern control systems are becoming…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-12-23 Hamza Fawzi , Paulo Tabuada , Suhas Diggavi

Information security in Process-aware Information System (PAIS) relies on many factors, including security of business process and the underlying system and technologies. Moreover, humans can be the weakest link that creates pathway to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-07-14 Maria Leitner , Zhendong Ma , Stefanie Rinderle-Ma

Today, many organizations are moving their computing services towards the Cloud. This makes their computer processing available much more conveniently to users. However, it also brings new security threats and challenges about safety and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-03-16 Hassen Mohammed Alsafi , Wafaa Mustafa Abduallah , Al-Sakib Khan Pathan

We present a framework for bridging the gap between sensor attack detection and recovery in cyber-physical systems. The proposed framework models modern-day, complex perception pipelines as bipartite graphs, which combined with anomaly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Axel Andersson , György Dán

The widespread adoption of thinking mode in large language models (LLMs) has significantly enhanced complex task processing capabilities while introducing new security risks. When subjected to jailbreak attacks, the step-by-step reasoning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Fan Yang

Flow control aims at modifying a natural flow state to reach an other flow state considered as advantageous. In this paper, active feedback flow separation control is investigated with two different closed-loop control strategies, involving…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-22 T. Arnoult , G. Acher , V. Nowinski , P. Vuillemin , C. Briat , P. Pernod , C. Ghouila-Houri , A. Talbi , E. Garnier , C. Poussot-Vassal