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Recently, moving target defence (MTD) has been proposed to thwart false data injection (FDI) attacks in power system state estimation by proactively triggering the distributed flexible AC transmission system (D-FACTS) devices. One of the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-22 Wangkun Xu , Imad M. Jaimoukha , Fei Teng

Recent studies have considered thwarting false data injection (FDI) attacks against state estimation in power grids by proactively perturbing branch susceptances. This approach is known as moving target defense (MTD). However, despite of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-06 Zhenyong Zhang , Ruilong Deng , David K. Y. Yau , Peng Cheng , Jiming Chen

Fast and accurate detection of cyberattacks is a key element for a cyber-resilient power system. Recently, data-driven detectors and physics-based Moving Target Defences (MTD) have been proposed to detect false data injection (FDI) attacks…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-22 Wangkun Xu , Martin Higgins , Jianhong Wang , Imad M. Jaimoukha , Fei Teng

Machine learning (ML)-based detectors have been shown to be effective in detecting stealthy false data injection attacks (FDIAs) that can bypass conventional bad data detectors (BDDs) in power systems. However, ML models are also vulnerable…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-07 Yexiang Chen , Subhash Lakshminarayana , H. Vincent Poor

We study moving-target defense (MTD) that actively perturbs transmission line reactances to thwart stealthy false data injection (FDI) attacks against state estimation in a power grid. Prior work on this topic has proposed MTD based on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-04-05 Subhash Lakshminarayana , David K. Y. Yau

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

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

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

Moving target defenses (MTD) are proactive security techniques that enhance network security by confusing the attacker and limiting their attack window. MTDs have been shown to have significant benefits when evaluated against traditional…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Tina Moghaddam , Guowei Yang , Chandra Thapa , Seyit Camtepe , Dan Dongseong Kim

Moving Target Defense (MTD) has emerged as a proactive and dynamic framework to counteract evolving cyber threats. Traditional MTD approaches often rely on assumptions about the attackers knowledge and behavior. However, real-world…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Megha Bose , Praveen Paruchuri , Akshat Kumar

This paper outlines a cyber-physical authentication strategy to protect power system infrastructure against false data injection (FDI) attacks. We demonstrate that it is feasible to use small, low-cost, yet highly attack-resistant security…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-02 Martin Higgins , Keith Mayes , Fei Teng

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

Electric power grid components, such as high voltage transformers (HVTs), generating stations, substations, etc. are expensive to maintain and, in the event of failure, replace. Thus, regularly monitoring the behavior of such components is…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-09 Sailik Sengupta , Kaustav Basu , Arunabha Sen , Subbarao Kambhampati

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

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

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

Data injection attacks (DIAs) pose a significant cybersecurity threat to the Smart Grid by enabling an attacker to compromise the integrity of data acquisition and manipulate estimated states without triggering bad data detection…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-26 Ke Sun , Iñaki Esnaola , H. Vincent Poor

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

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) in power grids is an emerging defense technique that has gained prominence in the recent past. It aims to solve the long-standing problem of securing the power grid against stealthy attacks. The key idea behind…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-30 Subhash Lakshminarayana , Yexiang Chen , Charalambos Konstantinou , Daisuke Mashima , Anurag K. Srivastava
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