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We consider a system consisting of multiple interdependent assets, and a set of defenders, each responsible for securing a subset of the assets against an attacker. The interdependencies between the assets are captured by an attack graph,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-12 Mustafa Abdallah , Parinaz Naghizadeh , Ashish R. Hota , Timothy Cason , Saurabh Bagchi , Shreyas Sundaram

A major limitation of open P2P networks is the lack of strong identities. This allows any agent to attack the system by creating multiple false personas, thereby disrupting the overlay network's connectivity and sabotaging its operation. In…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-10-15 Saar Tochner , Aviv Zohar

This article investigates the security issue caused by false data injection attacks in distributed estimation, wherein each sensor can construct two types of residues based on local estimates and neighbor information, respectively. The…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-04 Jiahao Huang , Marios M. Polycarpou , Wen Yang , Fangfei Li , Yang Tang

We consider the cyber-physical security of parallel server systems, which is relevant for a variety of engineering applications such as networking, manufacturing, and transportation. These systems rely on feedback control and may thus be…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-18 Yuzhen Zhan , Li Jin

In the last years we have witnessed the appearance of a variety of strategies to design optimal location privacy-preserving mechanisms, in terms of maximizing the adversary's expected error with respect to the users' whereabouts. In this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-08-25 Simon Oya , Carmela Troncoso , Fernando Pérez-González

Attack graphs provide compact representations of the attack paths that an attacker can follow to compromise network resources by analysing network vulnerabilities and topology. These representations are a powerful tool for security risk…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-06-23 Luis Muñoz-González , Daniele Sgandurra , Andrea Paudice , Emil C. Lupu

Deep learning (DL) models have revolutionized numerous domains, yet optimizing them for computational efficiency remains a challenging endeavor. Development of new DL models typically involves two parties: the model developers and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Yubo Gao , Maryam Haghifam , Christina Giannoula , Renbo Tu , Gennady Pekhimenko , Nandita Vijaykumar

In this paper, we study the \textit{graph condensation} problem by compressing the large, complex graph into a concise, synthetic representation that preserves the most essential and discriminative information of structure and features. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Xinglin Li , Kun Wang , Hanhui Deng , Yuxuan Liang , Di Wu

We define a graph-based rate optimization problem and consider its computation, which provides a unified approach to the computation of various theoretical limits, including the (conditional) graph entropy, rate-distortion functions and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Deheng Yuan , Tao Guo , Zhongyi Huang , Shi Jin

A system relying on the collective behavior of decision-makers can be vulnerable to a variety of adversarial attacks. How well can a system operator protect performance in the face of these risks? We frame this question in the context of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-23 Keith Paarporn , Mahnoosh Alizadeh , Jason R. Marden

In cybersecurity, attackers range from brash, unsophisticated script kiddies and cybercriminals to stealthy, patient advanced persistent threats. When modeling these attackers, we can observe that they demonstrate different risk-seeking and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Erick Galinkin , John Carter , Spiros Mancoridis

A key element in defending computer networks is to recognize the types of cyber attacks based on the observed malicious activities. Obfuscation onto what could have been observed of an attack sequence may lead to mis-interpretation of its…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-09-06 Haitao Du , Shanchieh Jay Yang

Graph neural networks, a popular class of models effective in a wide range of graph-based learning tasks, have been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks. While the majority of the literature focuses on such vulnerability in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-05 Xingchen Wan , Henry Kenlay , Binxin Ru , Arno Blaas , Michael A. Osborne , Xiaowen Dong

A key challenge in multi-robot and multi-agent systems is generating solutions that are robust to other self-interested or even adversarial parties who actively try to prevent the agents from achieving their goals. The practicality of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-10-19 Trong Nghia Hoang , Yuchen Xiao , Kavinayan Sivakumar , Christopher Amato , Jonathan How

Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) have created new security challenges for critical infrastructures due to their stealthy, dynamic, and adaptive natures. In this work, we aim to lay a game-theoretic foundation by establishing a multi-stage…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-10 Linan Huang , Quanyan Zhu

In the contemporary digital landscape, cybersecurity has become a critical issue due to the increasing frequency and sophistication of cyber attacks. This study utilizes a non-zero-sum game theoretical framework to model the strategic…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Dongyoung Park , Gaby G. Dagher

Ensuring the security of networked systems is a significant problem, considering the susceptibility of modern infrastructures and technologies to adversarial interference. A central component of this problem is how defensive resources…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Adel Aghajan , Keith Paarporn , Jason R. Marden

The existence of adversarial examples brings huge concern for people to apply Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) in safety-critical tasks. However, how to generate adversarial examples with categorical data is an important problem but lack of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Han Xu , Pengfei He , Jie Ren , Yuxuan Wan , Zitao Liu , Hui Liu , Jiliang Tang

A major challenge in cyber-threat analysis is combining information from different sources to find the person or the group responsible for the cyber-attack. It is one of the most important technical and policy challenges in cyber-security.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-07-11 Eric Nunes , Paulo Shakarian , Gerardo I. Simari , Andrew Ruef

Growing cybersecurity risks in the power grid require that utilities implement a variety of security mechanism (SM) composed mostly of VPNs, firewalls, or other custom security components. While they provide some protection, they might…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-12-07 Md Touhiduzzaman , Adam Hahn , Anurag Srivastava