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Cybersecurity is one of the most pressing technological challenges of our time and requires measures from all sectors of society. A key measure is automated security response, which enables automated mitigation and recovery from cyber…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Kim Hammar

We investigate the problem of designing optimal stealthy poisoning attacks on the control channel of Markov decision processes (MDPs). This research is motivated by the recent interest of the research community for adversarial and poisoning…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-16 Alessio Russo , Alexandre Proutiere

This work proposes a moving target defense (MTD) strategy to detect coordinated cyber-physical attacks (CCPAs) against power grids. The main idea of the proposed approach is to invalidate the knowledge that the attackers use to mask the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Subhash Lakshminarayana , E. Veronica Belmega , H. Vincent Poor

In this paper, we investigate the control of a cyber-physical system (CPS) while accounting for its vulnerability to external attacks. We formulate a constrained stochastic problem with a robust constraint to ensure robust operation against…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-18 Nishanth Venkatesh , Aditya Dave , Ioannis Faros , Andreas A. Malikopoulos

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

Security issues have gathered growing interest within the control systems community, as physical components and communication networks are increasingly vulnerable to cyber attacks. In this context, recent literature has studied increasingly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-22 Xiaoyu Luo , Chongrong Fang , Jianping He , Chengcheng Zhao , Dario Paccagnan

Accurate state estimation is of paramount importance to maintain the power system operating in a secure and efficient state. The recently identified coordinated data injection attacks to meter measurements can bypass the current security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-08-19 Suzhi Bi , Ying Jun Zhang

To ensure the usefulness of Reinforcement Learning (RL) in real systems, it is crucial to ensure they are robust to noise and adversarial attacks. In adversarial RL, an external attacker has the power to manipulate the victim agent's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Jeremy McMahan , Young Wu , Xiaojin Zhu , Qiaomin Xie

Most cyber-physical systems (CPS) encounter a large volume of data which is added to the system gradually in real time and not altogether in advance. In this paper, we provide a theoretical framework that yields optimal control strategies…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-21 Andreas A. Malikopoulos

In this paper, a general model for cyber-physical systems (CPSs), that captures the diffusion of attacks from the cyber layer to the physical system, is studied. In particular, a game-theoretic approach is proposed to analyze the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-10 Anibal Sanjab , Walid Saad

Adversary emulation is an offensive exercise that provides a comprehensive assessment of a system's resilience against cyber attacks. However, adversary emulation is typically a manual process, making it costly and hard to deploy in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Arnab Bhattacharya , Thiagarajan Ramachandran , Sandeep Banik , Chase P. Dowling , Shaunak D. Bopardikar

Active distribution networks facilitating bidirectional power exchange with renewable energy resources are susceptible to cyberattacks due to integration of a diverse array of cyber components. This study introduces a grid-level defense…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-18 Hampei Sasahara , Tatsuya Yamada , Jun-ichi Imura , Henrik Sandberg

Due to the potentially severe consequences of coordinated cyber-physical attacks (CCPA), the design of defenses has gained significant attention. A popular approach is to eliminate the existence of attacks by either securing existing…

Performance · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Yudi Huang , Ting He , Nilanjan Ray Chaudhuri , Thomas La Porta

As one of the most sophisticated attacks against power grids, coordinated cyber-physical attacks (CCPAs) damage the power grid's physical infrastructure and use a simultaneous cyber attack to mask its effect. This work proposes a novel…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-26 Yexiang Chen , Subhash Lakshminarayana , Fei Teng

We study the problem of defending a Cyber-Physical System (CPS) consisting of interdependent components with heterogeneous sensitivity to investments. In addition to the optimal allocation of limited security resources, we analyze the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-13 Pradeep Sharma Oruganti , Parinaz Naghizadeh , Qadeer Ahmed

Existing coordinated cyber-attack detection methods have low detection accuracy and efficiency and poor generalization ability due to difficulties dealing with unbalanced attack data samples, high data dimensionality, and noisy data sets.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-03 Lei Wang , Pengcheng Xu , Zhaoyang Qu , Xiaoyong Bo , Yunchang Dong , Zhenming Zhang , Yang Li

This paper introduces a cyber-physical testbed that integrates the Real-Time Digital Simulator (RTDS) with the Real-Time Automation Controller (RTAC) to enhance cybersecurity in electrical distribution networks. Focused on addressing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-12 Alaa Selim , Junbo Zhao

This work proposes a moving target defense (MTD) strategy to detect coordinated cyber-physical attacks (CCPAs) against power grids. A CCPA consists of a physical attack, such as disconnecting a transmission line, followed by a coordinated…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-08-08 Subhash Lakshminarayana , E. Veronica Belmega , H. Vincent Poor

Power distribution systems (PDS) serve as the backbone of our modern society, ensuring electricity reaches homes, businesses, and critical infrastructure. However, the increasing digitization and interconnectivity of these systems have…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-22 Mitikiri Sagar Babu , Victor Sam Moses Babu , Vedantham Lakshmi Srinivas , Pratyush Chakraborty , Mayukha Pal

Cyber-physical systems (CPS), in most instances, represent systems of systems with an informationally decentralized structure such as emerging mobility systems, networked control systems, sustainable manufacturing, smart power grids, power…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-15 Andreas Malikopoulos