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Social engineering attacks are phenomena that are equally applicable to both the physical world and cyberspace. These attacks in the physical world have been studied for a much longer time than their counterpart in cyberspace. This…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Rosana Montañez Rodriguez , Adham Atyabi , Shouhuai

The rapid advancement of quantum computing poses a significant threat to many current security algorithms used for secure communication, digital authentication, and information encryption. A sufficiently powerful quantum computer could…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Basel Halak , Cristian Sebastian Csete , Edward Joyce , Jack Papaioannou , Alexandre Pires , Jin Soma , Betul Gokkaya , Michael Murphy

The financial sector faces escalating cyber threats amplified by artificial intelligence (AI) and the advent of quantum computing. AI is being weaponized for sophisticated attacks like deepfakes and AI-driven malware, while quantum…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Ahmed M. Elmisery , Mirela Sertovic , Andrew Zayin , Paul Watson

Quantum technologies, spanning communication, sensing, computing, and cryptography, are rapidly emerging as critical paths of geopolitical competition and strategic defence innovation. Unlike traditional technological advances, quantum…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-01-19 Axel Ferrazzini

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) revolutionize various application domains with integration and interoperability of networking, computing systems, and mechanical devices. Due to its scale and variety, CPS faces a number of challenges and opens…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-01-09 Pradeeban Kathiravelu , Luís Veiga

Cyber-physical systems, such as self-driving cars or autonomous aircraft, must defend against attacks that target sensor hardware. Analyzing system design can help engineers understand how a compromised sensor could impact the system's…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Jian Xiang , Nathan Fulton , Stephen Chong

Cyber physical systems (CPS) are mission critical systems engineered by combination of cyber and physical systems respectively. These systems are tightly coupled, resource constrained systems and have dynamic real time applications. Due to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-03 Anees Ara , Mznah Al-Rodhaan , Yuan Tian , Abdullah Al-Dhelaan

Modern power systems face increasing vulnerability to sophisticated cyber-physical attacks beyond traditional N-1 contingency frameworks. Existing security paradigms face a critical bottleneck: efficiently identifying worst-case scenarios…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-17 Saman Mazaheri Khamaneh , Tong Wu , Wei Sun , Cong Chen

Quantum-resistant cryptography is cryptography that aims to deliver cryptographic functions and protocols that remain secure even if large-scale fault-tolerant quantum computers are built. NIST will soon announce the first selected…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-02 John Preuß Mattsson , Ben Smeets , Erik Thormarker

The advent of Cryptographically Relevant Quantum Computers (CRQCs) presents a fundamental and existential threat to the forensic integrity and operational safety of Industrial Control Systems (ICS) and Operational Technology (OT) in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Yaser Baseri , Edward Waller

Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are required to satisfy safety constraints in various application domains such as robotics, industrial manufacturing systems, and power systems. Faults and cyber attacks have been shown to cause safety…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-02 Abdullah Al Maruf , Luyao Niu , Andrew Clark , J. Sukarno Mertoguno , Radha Poovendran

Quantum computing is an emerging paradigm with the potential to offer significant computational advantage over conventional classical computing by exploiting quantum-mechanical principles such as entanglement and superposition. It is…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Sukhpal Singh Gill , Adarsh Kumar , Harvinder Singh , Manmeet Singh , Kamalpreet Kaur , Muhammad Usman , Rajkumar Buyya

The tight coupling between communication and control in cyber-physical systems is necessary to enable the complex regulation required to operate these systems. Unfortunately, cyberattackers can exploit network vulnerabilities to compromise…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-25 Amr S. Mohamed , Mohsen Khalaf , Deepa Kundur

While the increasing penetration of information and communication technology into distribution grid brings numerous benefits, it also opens up a new threat landscape, particularly through cyberattacks. To provide a basis for countermeasures…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Ömer Sen , Florian Schmidtke , Federico Carere , Francesca Santori , Andreas Ulbig , Antonello Monti

Cyber-physical systems (CPS), which integrate algorithmic control with physical processes, often consist of physically distributed components communicating over a network. A malfunctioning or compromised component in such a CPS can lead to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-11-08 Yuqi Chen , Christopher M. Poskitt , Jun Sun

Diversity-based security approaches have been studied for several decades since the 1970's. The concept of diversity-by-design emerged in the 1980's and, since then, diversity-based system design research has been explored to build more…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Qisheng Zhang , Abdullah Zubair Mohammed , Zelin Wan , Jin-Hee Cho , Terrence J. Moore

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

Within the last decade much progress has been made in the experimental realisation of quantum computing hardware based on a variety of physical systems. Rapid progress has been fuelled by the conviction that sufficiently powerful quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-01 A. Rossi , P. G. Baity , V. M. Schäfer , M. Weides

The advent of quantum computing poses a profound threat to traditional cryptographic systems, exposing vulnerabilities that compromise the security of digital communication channels reliant on RSA, ECC, and similar classical encryption…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-31 G S Mamatha , Namya Dimri , Rasha Sinha

This research investigates the potential implications of quantum technology on accounting information systems, and business overall. This endeavor focuses on the vulnerabilities of quantum computers and the emergence of quantum-resistant…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-11-21 Maksym Lazirko