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The Stackelberg security game is played between a defender and an attacker, where the defender needs to allocate a limited amount of resources to multiple targets in order to minimize the loss due to adversarial attack by the attacker.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Rufan Bai , Haoxing Lin , Xinyu Yang , Xiaowei Wu , Minming Li , Weijia Jia

We consider the problem of a dynamical network whose dynamics is subject to external perturbations (`attacks') locally applied at a subset of the network nodes. We assume that the network has an ability to defend itself against attacks with…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Ishan Kafle , Sudarshan Bartaula , Afroza Shirin , Isaac Klickstein , Pankaz Das , Francesco Sorrentino

This paper studies the resilience of second-order networked dynamical systems to strategic attacks. We discuss two widely used control laws, which have applications in power networks and formation control of autonomous agents. In the first…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-09 Mohammad Pirani , Joshua A. Taylor , Bruno Sinopoli

This paper investigates the problem of synthesizing proactive defense systems in which the defender can allocate deceptive targets and modify the cost of actions for the attacker who aims to compromise security assets in this system. We…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Haoxiang Ma , Shuo Han , Nandi Leslie , Charles Kamhoua , Jie Fu

In this paper we consider a defending problem on a network. In the model, the defender holds a total defending resource of R, which can be distributed to the nodes of the network. The defending resource allocated to a node can be shared by…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Minming Li , Long Tran-Thanh , Xiaowei Wu

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

We study a security game over a network played between a $defender$ and $k$ $attackers$. Every attacker chooses, probabilistically, a node of the network to damage. The defender chooses, probabilistically as well, a connected induced…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-10 Eleni C. Akrida , Argyrios Deligkas , Themistoklis Melissourgos , Paul G. Spirakis

Cyber risk has become a critical financial threat in today's interconnected digital economy. This paper introduces a cyber-risk management framework for networked digital systems that combines the strategic behavior of players with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Elisa Botteghi , Martino S. Centonze , Davide Pastorello , Daniele Tantari

We consider the problem of security-aware planning in an unknown stochastic environment, in the presence of attacks on control signals (i.e., actuators) of the robot. We model the attacker as an agent who has the full knowledge of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Alper Kamil Bozkurt , Yu Wang , Miroslav Pajic

This paper is concerned with the analysis and design of secure Distributed Control Systems in the face of integrity attacks on sensors and controllers by external attackers or insiders. In general a DCS consists of many heterogenous…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-10-19 Sean Weerakkody , Xiaofei Liu , Sang H. Son , Bruno Sinopoli

We address a problem of area protection in graph-based scenarios with multiple mobile agents where connectivity is maintained among agents to ensure they can communicate. The problem consists of two adversarial teams of agents that move in…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2017-09-06 Marika Ivanová , Pavel Surynek , Diep Thi Ngoc Nguyen

This article studies a problem of strategic network inspection, in which a defender (agency) is tasked with detecting the presence of multiple attacks in the network. An inspection strategy entails monitoring the network components,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Mathieu Dahan , Lina Sela , Saurabh Amin

This paper studies the problem of multi-step manipulative attacks in Stackelberg security games, in which a clever attacker attempts to orchestrate its attacks over multiple time steps to mislead the defender's learning of the attacker's…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Thanh H. Nguyen , Arunesh Sinha

Motivated by the controller placement problems in software-defined networks and the fair division principles of classical "cake cutting", we investigate the following two-player zero-sum game. In our model, a defender places a limited…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Grzegorz Gutowski , Konstanty Junosza-Szaniawski , Antonio Lauerbach , Alexander Wolff

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

In neural network (NN) security, safeguarding model integrity and resilience against adversarial attacks has become paramount. This study investigates the application of stochastic computing (SC) as a novel mechanism to fortify NN models.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Faeze S. Banitaba , Sercan Aygun , M. Hassan Najafi

Selecting the combination of security controls that will most effectively protect a system's assets is a difficult task. If the wrong controls are selected, the system may be left vulnerable to cyber-attacks that can impact the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Dylan Léveillé , Jason Jaskolka

We consider a two-player zero-sum network routing game in which a router wants to maximize the amount of legitimate traffic that flows from a given source node to a destination node and an attacker wants to block as much legitimate traffic…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-13 David Grimsman , Joao P Hespanha , Jason R Marden

In this article, we address the problem of risk assessment of stealthy attacks on uncertain control systems. Considering data injection attacks that aim at maximizing impact while remaining undetected, we use the recently proposed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-26 Sribalaji C. Anand , André M. H. Teixeira , Anders Ahlén

This paper considers the security investment problem over a network in which the resource owners aim to allocate their constrained security resources to heterogeneous targets strategically. Investing in each target makes it less vulnerable,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Jason Hughes , Juntao Chen