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Stealth attacks pose potential risks to cyber-physical systems because they are difficult to detect. Assessing the risk of systems under stealth attacks remains an open challenge, especially in nonlinear systems. To comprehensively quantify…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-07 Guang Chen , Zhicong Sun , Yulong Ding , Shuang-hua Yang

Todays industrial control systems consist of tightly coupled components allowing adversaries to exploit security attack surfaces from the information technology side, and, thus, also get access to automation devices residing at the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Mukund Bhole , Wolfgang Kastner , Thilo Sauter

Assessing the security posture of Industrial Control Systems (ICS) is critical for protecting essential infrastructure. However, the complexity and scale of these environments make it challenging to identify and prioritize potential attack…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Lucas Miranda , Carlos Banjar , Daniel Menasche , Anton Kocheturov , Gaurav Srivastava , Tobias Limmer

A design-centric modeling approach was proposed to model the behaviour of the physical processes controlled by Industrial Control Systems (ICS) and study the cascading impact of data-oriented attacks. A threat model was used as input to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Zhongyuan Hau , John H. Castellanos , Jianying Zhou

In cyber-physical systems, malicious and resourceful attackers could penetrate the system through cyber means and cause significant physical damage. Consequently, detection of such attacks becomes integral towards making these systems…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-10 Amin Ghafouri , Waseem Abbas , Aron Laszka , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik , Xenofon Koutsoukos

Risk is the best known and perhaps the best studied example within a much broader class of cyber security metrics. However, risk is not the only possible cyber security metric. Other metrics such as resilience can exist and could be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-12-31 Zachary A. Collier , Mahesh Panwar , Alexander A. Ganin , Alex Kott , Igor Linkov

Cyber-physical systems are at the intersection of digital technology and engineering domains, rendering them high-value targets of sophisticated and well-funded cybersecurity threat actors. Prominent cybersecurity attacks on CPS have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Shaofei Huang , Christopher M. Poskitt , Lwin Khin Shar

Cyber-physical systems are integrations of computation, networking, and physical processes. Due to the tight cyber-physical coupling and to the potentially disrupting consequences of failures, security here is one of the primary concerns.…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-12-13 Yuriy Zacchia Lun , Alessandro D'Innocenzo , Ivano Malavolta , Maria Domenica Di Benedetto

With the escalating threats posed by cyberattacks on Industrial Control Systems (ICSs), the development of customized Industrial Intrusion Detection Systems (IIDSs) received significant attention in research. While existing literature…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Konrad Wolsing , Eric Wagner , Frederik Basels , Patrick Wagner , Klaus Wehrle

Owing to the advanced communication networks and intelligent electronic devices, the cyber-physical distribution systems (CPDSs) possess the capability to perform flexible economic dispatch and achieve rapid self-healing from extreme…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-25 Yulin Liu , Zhaojun Ruan , Libao Shi

Cyber attacks have become serious threats to Industrial Control systems as well. It becomes important to develop a serious threat defense system against such vulnerabilities. For such process control systems, safety should also be assured…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Manikanta Reddy Dornala

Risk assessment plays a crucial role in ensuring the security and resilience of modern computer systems. Existing methods for conducting risk assessments often suffer from tedious and time-consuming processes, making it challenging to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Simon Unger , Ektor Arzoglou , Markus Heinrich , Dirk Scheuermann , Stefan Katzenbeisser

Complex, interconnected cyber-physical systems (CPS) are increasingly prevalent in domains such as power systems. Cyber-resilient architectures have been proposed to recover compromised cyber components of CPS. Recent works have studied…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Eman Badr , Abdullah Al Maruf

Complex, interconnected Cyber-physical Systems (CPS) are increasingly common in applications including smart grids and transportation. Ensuring safety of interconnected systems whose dynamics are coupled is challenging because the effects…

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

We apply formal methods to lay and streamline theoretical foundations to reason about Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) and cyber-physical attacks. We focus on %a formal treatment of both integrity and DoS attacks to sensors and actuators of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-04-24 Ruggero Lanotte , Massimo Merro , Riccardo Muradore , Luca Viganò

Identifying, analyzing, and evaluating cybersecurity risks are essential to assess the vulnerabilities of modern manufacturing infrastructures and to devise effective decision-making strategies to secure critical manufacturing against…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Md Habibor Rahman , Erfan Yazdandoost Hamedani , Young-Jun Son , Mohammed Shafae

This paper presents a mapping framework for design factors and implementation process for building credible Industrial Control Systems (ICS) security testbeds. The resilience of ICSs has become a critical concern to operators and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Uchenna D Ani , Jeremy M Watson , Benjamin Green , Barnaby Craggs , Jason Nurse

Cyber situational awareness systems are increasingly used for creating cyber common operating pictures for cybersecurity analysis and education. However, these systems face data occlusion and convolution issues due to the burgeoning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Hussain Ahmad , Faheem Ullah , Rehan Jafri

Cyberattack detection in Critical Infrastructure and Supply Chains has become challenging in Industry 4.0. Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) are deployed to counter the cyberattacks. However, an IDS effectively detects attacks based on the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Smita Khapre

Our Critical Infrastructure (CI) systems are, by definition, critical to the safe and proper functioning of society. Nearly all of these systems utilize industrial Process Control Systems (PCS) to provide clean water, reliable electricity,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-05-10 James Christopher Foreman