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The hardware computing landscape is changing. What used to be distributed systems can now be found on a chip with highly configurable, diverse, specialized and general purpose units. Such Systems-on-a-Chip (SoC) are used to control today's…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Ali Shoker , Paulo Esteves Verissimo , Marcus Völp

Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) are characterized by their ability to integrate the physical and information or cyber worlds. Their deployment in critical infrastructure have demonstrated a potential to transform the world. However, harnessing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Felix Olowononi , Danda B. Rawat , Chunmei Liu

Industrial Control Systems (ICSs) are complex interconnected systems used to manage process control within industrial environments, such as chemical processing plants and water treatment facilities. As the modern industrial environment…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Jaxson Brown , Duc-Son Pham , Sie-Teng Soh , Foad Motalebi , Sivaraman Eswaran , Mahathir Almashor

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) integrate sensing, communication, computation, and control to support critical infrastructure, including smart grids, industrial automation, and control systems. In the electrical utility domain, various…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Abile Jean , Kuniyilh S

The advancement of manufacturing technologies has enabled the integration of more intellectual property (IP) cores on the same system-on-chip (SoC). Scalable and high throughput on-chip communication architecture has become a vital…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Hansika Weerasena , Prabhat Mishra

Cyberattacks on industrial control systems (ICS) have been drawing attention in academia. However, this has not raised adequate concerns among some industrial practitioners. Therefore, it is necessary to identify the vulnerable locations…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-16 He Wen

Industrial control systems (ICS) of critical infrastructure are increasingly connected to the Internet for remote site management at scale. However, cyber attacks against ICS - especially at the communication channels between humanmachine…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Taejun Choi , Guangdong Bai , Ryan K L Ko , Naipeng Dong , Wenlu Zhang , Shunyao Wang

As many industries shift towards centralised controlled information systems for monitoring and control, more importance is being placed upon technologies such as Supervisory Control and Data Acquisitions industrial systems (SCADA). This…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Michael Smurthwaite , Maumita Bhattacharya

Cyber-attacks can have severe impacts on critical infrastructures, from outages to economical loss and physical damage to people and environment. One of the main targets of these attacks is the smart grid. In this paper, we propose a new…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-20 José Ignacio Requeno

Despite the critical role of timing infrastructure in enabling essential services, from public key infrastructure and smart grids to autonomous navigation and high-frequency trading, modern timing stacks remain highly vulnerable to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Adeel Nasrullah , Fatima M. Anwar

Past attacks against industrial control systems (ICS) show that adversaries often target both the ICS network and the physical process to achieve potential catastrophic impact. To secure ICS, intrusion detection systems promise timely…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Stefan Lenz , Julia Raab , Benedikt Holzbach , Deniz Köller , Sotiris Michaelides , Martin Henze

Universal Circuits (UCs) offer a promising approach to hardware Intellectual Property (IP) obfuscation, leveraging cryptographic principles to hide both structure and function in a programmable logic fabric. Their adaptability makes them…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Zain Ul Abideen , Deepali Garg , Lawrence Pileggi , Samuel Pagliarini

The cyber-physical nature of the smart grid has rendered it vulnerable to a multitude of attacks that can occur at its communication, networking, and physical entry points. Such cyber-physical attacks can have detrimental effects on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-23 Anibal Sanjab , Walid Saad , Ismail Guvenc , Arif Sarwat , Saroj Biswas

The extensive use of distributed vehicle platoon controllers has resulted in several benefits for transportation systems, such as increased traffic flow, fuel efficiency, and decreased pollution. The rising reliance on interconnected…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-11 Tashfique Hasnine Choudhury

Quantum computing technologies pose a significant threat to the currently employed public-key cryptography protocols. In this paper, we discuss the impact of the quantum threat on public key infrastructures (PKIs), which are used as a part…

The software product is a source of cyber-attacks that target organizations by using their software supply chain as a distribution vector. As the reliance of software projects on open-source or proprietary modules is increasing drastically,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Betul Gokkaya , Leonardo Aniello , Basel Halak

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

In this article, we propose the Artificial Intelligence Security Taxonomy to systematize the knowledge of threats, vulnerabilities, and security controls of machine-learning-based (ML-based) systems. We first classify the damage caused by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Yusuke Kawamoto , Kazumasa Miyake , Koichi Konishi , Yutaka Oiwa

Cyber-Physical System (CPS) has made a tremendous progress in recent years and also disrupted many technical fields such as smart industries, smart health, smart transportation etc. to flourish the nations economy. However, CPS Security is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Raj Chaganti , Deepti Gupta , Naga Vemprala

Programmable Logic Controllers are used for smart homes, in production processes or to control critical infrastructures. Modern industrial devices in the control level are often communicating over proprietary protocols on top of TCP/IP with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-18 Matthias Niedermaier , Florian Fischer , Alexander von Bodisco