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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

The problem of mitigating maliciously injected signals in interconnected systems is dealt with in this paper. We consider the class of covert attacks, as they are stealthy and cannot be detected by conventional means in centralized…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-15 Angelo Barboni , Thomas Parisini

This paper considers the problem of security allocation in a networked control system under stealthy attacks. The system is comprised of interconnected subsystems represented by vertices. A malicious adversary selects a single vertex on…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-03 Anh Tung Nguyen , André M. H. Teixeira , Alexander Medvedev

The rapid expansion of Internet use has increased system exposure to cyber threats, with advanced persistent threats (APTs) being especially challenging due to their stealth, prolonged duration, and multi-stage attacks targeting high-value…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Willie Kouam , Stefan Rass

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 defense (MTD) is a proactive defense approach that aims to thwart attacks by continuously changing the attack surface of a system (e.g., changing host or network configurations), thereby increasing the adversary's uncertainty…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Taha Eghtesad , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik , Aron Laszka

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

In pervasive systems, mobile devices and other sensors access Gateways, which are Servers that communicate with the devices, provide low latency services, connect them with each other, and connect them to the Internet and backbone networks.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Erol Gelenbe , Mohammed Nasereddin

Machine learning based network intrusion detection systems are vulnerable to adversarial attacks that degrade classification performance under both gradient-based and distribution shift threat models. Existing defenses typically apply…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Oluseyi Olukola , Nick Rahimi

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

Nowadays, intrusion detection systems based on deep learning deliver state-of-the-art performance. However, recent research has shown that specially crafted perturbations, called adversarial examples, are capable of significantly reducing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Islam Debicha , Richard Bauwens , Thibault Debatty , Jean-Michel Dricot , Tayeb Kenaza , Wim Mees

Present attack methods can make state-of-the-art classification systems based on deep neural networks misclassify every adversarially modified test example. The design of general defense strategies against a wide range of such attacks still…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Sailik Sengupta , Tathagata Chakraborti , Subbarao Kambhampati

We consider the probabilistic planning problem for a defender (P1) who can jointly query the sensors and take control actions to reach a set of goal states while being aware of possible sensor attacks by an adversary (P2) who has perfect…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-01 Sumukha Udupa , Abhishek N. Kulkarni , Shuo Han , Nandi O. Leslie , Charles A. Kamhoua , Jie Fu

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 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

This paper addresses the security allocation problem within networked control systems, which consist of multiple interconnected control systems under the influence of two opposing agents: a defender and a malicious adversary. The adversary…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-31 Anh Tung Nguyen , Andreas Hertzberg , André MH Teixeira

As more attention is paid to security in the context of control systems and as attacks occur to real control systems throughout the world, it has become clear that some of the most nefarious attacks are those that evade detection. The term…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Carlos Murguia , Iman Shames , Justin Ruths , Dragan Nesic

Stealthy attacks are a major cyber-security threat. In practice, both attackers and defenders have resource constraints that could limit their capabilities. Hence, to develop robust defense strategies, a promising approach is to utilize…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Ming Zhang , Zizhan Zheng , Ness B. Shroff

Undetectable attacks are an important class of malicious attacks threatening the security of cyber-physical systems, which can modify a system's state but leave the system output measurements unaffected, and hence cannot be detected from…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-11 Jianqi Chen , Jieqiang Wei , Wei Chen , Henrik Sandberg , Karl H. Johansson , Jie Chen

Intrusion detection systems (IDS) reinforce cyber defense by autonomously monitoring various data sources for traces of attacks. However, IDSs are also infamous for frequently raising false positives and alerts that are difficult to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Max Landauer , Florian Skopik , Markus Wurzenberger