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In recent years, cyber-security of power systems has become a growing concern. To protect power systems from malicious adversaries, advanced defense strategies that exploit sophisticated detection algorithms are required. Motivated by this,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-09 Ana Jevtić , Marija Ilić

This paper studies the deployment of joint moving target defense (MTD) and deception against multi-stage cyberattacks. Given the system equipped with MTD that randomizes between different configurations, we investigate how to allocate a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Lening Li , Haoxiang Ma , Shuo Han , Jie Fu

This article considers the design and analysis of multiple moving target defenses for recognizing and isolating attacks on cyber-physical systems. We consider attackers who perform integrity attacks on a set of sensors and actuators in a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Paul Griffioen , Sean Weerakkody , Bruno Sinopoli

Reactive defense mechanisms, such as intrusion detection systems, have made significant efforts to secure a system or network for the last several decades. However, the nature of reactive security mechanisms has limitations because…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Jin-Hee Cho , Dilli P. Sharma , Hooman Alavizadeh , Seunghyun Yoon , Noam Ben-Asher , Terrence J. Moore , Dong Seong Kim , Hyuk Lim , Frederica F. Nelson

Moving Target Defense (MTD) is an emerging game-changing defense strategy in cybersecurity with the goal of strengthening defenders and conversely puzzling adversaries in a network environment. The successful deployment of an MTD system can…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-05-23 Jianjun Zheng , Akbar Siami Namin

Moving Target Defense (MTD) has emerged as a key technique in various security applications as it takes away the attacker's ability to perform reconnaissance for exploiting a system's vulnerabilities. However, most of the existing research…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Vignesh Viswanathan , Megha Bose , Praveen Paruchuri

Several moving target defenses (MTDs) to counter adversarial ML attacks have been proposed in recent years. MTDs claim to increase the difficulty for the attacker in conducting attacks by regularly changing certain elements of the defense,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Aqib Rashid , Jose Such

The processing and storage of critical data in large-scale cloud networks necessitate the need for scalable security solutions. It has been shown that deploying all possible security measures incurs a cost on performance by using up…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Ankur Chowdhary , Sailik Sengupta , Dijiang Huang , Subbarao Kambhampati

Increasing reliance on Information and Communication Technology~(ICT) exposes the power grid to cyber-attacks. In particular, Coordinated Cyber-Attacks (CCAs) are considered highly threatening and difficult to defend against, because they…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Christian Moya , Jiankang Wang

Communication protocol security is among the most significant challenges of the Internet of Things (IoT) due to the wide variety of hardware and software technologies involved. Moving target defense (MTD) has been adopted as an innovative…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Yongsheng Mei , Kailash Gogineni , Tian Lan , Guru Venkataramani

This paper studies the performance and resilience of a linear cyber-physical control system (CPCS) with attack detection and reactive attack mitigation in the context of power grids. It addresses the problem of deriving an optimal sequence…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Subhash Lakshminarayana , Jabir Shabbir Karachiwala , Teo Zhan Teng , Rui Tan , David K. Y. Yau

The static nature of current cyber systems has made them easy to be attacked and compromised. By constantly changing a system, Moving Target Defense (MTD) has provided a promising way to reduce or move the attack surface that is available…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-04-06 Juan Wang , Feng Xiao , Jianwei Huang , Daochen Zha , Hongxin Hu , Huanguo Zhan

Moving Target Defense (MTD) has emerged as a newcomer into the asymmetric field of attack and defense, and shuffling-based MTD has been regarded as one of the most effective ways to mitigate DDoS attacks. However, previous work does not…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Yuyang Zhou , Guang Cheng , Shanqing Jiang , Ying Hu , Yuyu Zhao , Zihan Chen

Moving Target Defense (MTD) is a proactive security mechanism which changes the attack surface aiming to confuse attackers. Cloud computing leverages MTD techniques to enhance cloud security posture against cyber threats. While many MTD…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Hooman Alavizadeh , Samin Aref , Dong Seong Kim , Julian Jang-Jaccard

This paper examines how moving target defences (MTD) implemented in power systems can be countered by unsupervised learning-based false data injection (FDI) attack and how MTD can be combined with physical watermarking to enhance the system…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-07 Martin Higgins , Fei Teng , Thomas Parisini

Security is one of the most relevant concerns in cloud computing. With the evolution of cyber-security threats, developing innovative techniques to thwart attacks is of utmost importance. One recent method to improve cloud computing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Matheus Torquato , Marco Vieira

Large scale cloud networks consist of distributed networking and computing elements that process critical information and thus security is a key requirement for any environment. Unfortunately, assessing the security state of such networks…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-05 Ankur Chowdhary , Sailik Sengupta , Adel Alshamrani , Dijiang Huang , Abdulhakim Sabur

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 studies the performance and resilience of a cyber-physical control system (CPCS) with attack detection and reactive attack mitigation. It addresses the problem of deriving an optimal sequence of false data injection attacks that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-06-07 Subhash Lakshminarayana , Teo Zhan Teng , David K. Y. Yau , Rui Tan

In this work, we model Moving Target Defence (MTD) as a partially observable stochastic game between an attacker and a defender. The attacker tries to compromise the system through probing actions, while the defender minimizes the risk by…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Mandar Datar , Yann Dujardin