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Industrial Control Systems (ICS) rely heavily on Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) to manage critical infrastructure, yet analyzing PLC executables remains challenging due to diverse proprietary compilers and limited access to source…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Yonatan Gizachew Achamyeleh , Shih-Yuan Yu , Gustavo Quirós Araya , Mohammad Abdullah Al Faruque

In the existing software development ecosystem, security issues introduced by third-party code cannot be overlooked. Among these security concerns, memory access vulnerabilities stand out prominently, leading to risks such as the theft or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Yue Jin , Yibin Xu , Chengyuan Yang , Han Wang , Tianyi Huang , Tianyue Lu , Mingyu Chen

Closed-loop control systems employ continuous sensing and actuation to maintain controlled variables within preset bounds and achieve the desired system output. Intentional disturbances in the system, such as in the case of cyberattacks,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-21 Vuk Lesi , Marcio Juliato , Shabbir Ahmed , Christopher Gutierrez , Qian Wang , Manoj Sastry

Due to cost benefits, supply chains of integrated circuits (ICs) are largely outsourced nowadays. However, passing ICs through various third-party providers gives rise to many security threats, like piracy of IC intellectual property or…

Mobile and IoT applications have greatly enriched our daily life by providing convenient and intelligent services. However, these smart applications have been a prime target of adversaries for stealing sensitive data. It poses a crucial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Ning Xi , Chao Chen , Jun Zhang , Cong Sun , Shigang Liu , Pengbin Feng , Jianfeng Ma

Safety-critical software systems are those whose failure or malfunction could result in casualty and/or serious financial loss. In such systems, safety assurance cases (SACs) are an emerging approach that adopts a proactive strategy to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-03-23 Jinghui Cheng , Micayla Goodrum , Ronald Metoyer , Jane Cleland-Huang

Industrial Control Systems (ICSs) are widely used in critical infrastructures that face various cyberattacks causing physical damage. With the increasing integration of the ICSs and information technology (IT), ensuring the security of ICSs…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-17 Navid Aftabi , Dan Li , Ph. D. , Thomas Sharkey , Ph. D

Industrial components are of high importance because they control critical infrastructures that form the lifeline of modern societies. However, the rapid evolution of industrial components, together with the new paradigm of Industry 4.0,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Ángel Longueira-Romero , Rosa Iglesias , Jose Luis Flores , Iñaki Garitano

Cyber-physical control systems, such as industrial control systems (ICS), are increasingly targeted by cyberattacks. Such attacks can potentially cause tremendous damage, affect critical infrastructure or even jeopardize human life when the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-12-21 Sridhar Adepu , Ferdinand Brasser , Luis Garcia , Michael Rodler , Lucas Davi , Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi , Saman Zonouz

With the advent of smart industry, Industrial Control Systems (ICS) are increasingly using Cloud, IoT, and other services to meet Industry 4.0 targets. The connectivity inherent in these services exposes such systems to increased…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Alireza Dehlaghi-Ghadim , Ali Balador , Mahshid Helali Moghadam , Hans Hansson , Mauro Conti

Chip designers outsource chip fabrication to external foundries, but at the risk of IP theft. Logic locking, a promising solution to mitigate this threat, adds extra logic gates (key gates) and inputs (key bits) to the chip so that it…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-03-31 Mohamed El Massad , Jun Zhang , Siddharth Garg , Mahesh V. Tripunitara

Programmable logic controllers (PLCs) are the core element of industrial plants in todays deployments. They read sensor values, execute control algorithms, and write output values. Furthermore, industrial plants have lifetimes of one or…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Michael Gundall , Hans Dieter Schotten

Integrating the design and creation of fault identification and diagnostic capabilities into Model-Driven Development methodologies is one approach to enhancing the resilience of Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems. We present a Fault…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Barry Dowdeswell , Roopak Sinha , Stephen G. MacDonell

Software is prone to security vulnerabilities. Program analysis tools to detect them have limited effectiveness in practice due to their reliance on human labeled specifications. Large language models (or LLMs) have shown impressive code…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Ziyang Li , Saikat Dutta , Mayur Naik

Cyberattacks on industrial control systems (ICS) have been drawing attention in academia. However, this has not raised adequate concerns among some industrial practitioners. Therefore, it is necessary to identify the vulnerable locations…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-16 He Wen

Automated production systems (aPS) are highly customized systems that consist of hardware and software. Such aPS are controlled by a programmable logic controller (PLC), often in accordance with the IEC 61131-3 standard that divides system…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Kamil Rosiak , Alexander Schlie , Lukas Linsbauer , Birgit Vogel-Heuser , Ina Schaefer

Software systems have grown as an indispensable commodity used across various industries, and almost all essential services depend on them for effective operation. The software is no longer an independent or stand-alone piece of code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Ritwik Murali , Akash Ravi

Static information flow control (IFC) systems provide the ability to restrict data flows within a program, enabling vulnerable functionality or confidential data to be statically isolated from unsecured data or program logic. Despite the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Hemant Gouni , Jonathan Aldrich

The escalating complexity of modern digital systems has imposed significant challenges on integrated circuit (IC) design, necessitating tools that can simplify the IC design flow. The advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) has been seen as…

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