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Power distribution systems (PDS) serve as the backbone of our modern society, ensuring electricity reaches homes, businesses, and critical infrastructure. However, the increasing digitization and interconnectivity of these systems have…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-22 Mitikiri Sagar Babu , Victor Sam Moses Babu , Vedantham Lakshmi Srinivas , Pratyush Chakraborty , Mayukha Pal

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

Traditional threat modeling occurs during design, but cloud deployments introduce unanticipated threats, especially multi-stage attacks chaining vulnerabilities across trust boundaries. Existing security tools analyze components in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Nicholas Pecka , Lotfi Ben Othmane , Bharat Bhargava , Renee Bryce

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

Smart grid is an alternative solution of the conventional power grid which harnesses the power of the information technology to save the energy and meet today's environment requirements. Due to the inherent vulnerabilities in the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-01-06 Zakaria El Mrabet , Mehdi Ezzari , Hassan Elghazi , Badr Abou El Majd

Privacy-preservation for sensitive data has become a challenging issue in cloud computing. Threat modeling as a part of requirements engineering in secure software development provides a structured approach for identifying attacks and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-04-05 Ali Gholami , Anna-Sara Lind , Jane Reichel , Jan-Eric Litton , Ake Edlund , Erwin Laure

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

Modern Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition SCADA systems used by the electric utility industry to monitor and control electric power generation, transmission and distribution are recognized today as critical components of the electric…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-10-31 Leandros A. Maglaras , Jianmin Jiang , Tiago J. Cruz

Integrated circuits (ICs) are essential to modern electronic systems, yet they face significant risks from physical reverse engineering (RE) attacks that compromise intellectual property (IP) and overall system security. While IC camouflage…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Junling Fan , David Koblah , Domenic Forte

Enterprise software supply chains are increasingly vulnerable to infrastructure attacks, resulting in financial and reputational damage. Ensuring the integrity and provenance of software artifacts remains a significant challenge, where…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Fernando Castillo , Eduardo Brito , Pille Pullonen-Raudvere , Sebastian Werner , Stefan Tai

In today's rapidly evolving technological landscape and advanced software development, the rise in cyber security attacks has become a pressing concern. The integration of robust cyber security defenses has become essential across all…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Mounika Vanamala , Keith Bryant , Alex Caravella

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

The growing number of cyber-attacks against Industrial Control Systems (ICS) in recent years has elevated security concerns due to the potential catastrophic impact. Considering the complex nature of ICS, detecting a cyber-attack in them is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Sepideh Bahadoripour , Ethan MacDonald , Hadis Karimipour

As cyber threats continue to evolve in complexity and frequency, robust endpoint protection is essential for organizational security. This paper presents "Endpoint Security Agent: A Comprehensive Approach to Real-time System Monitoring and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Srihari R , Ayesha Taranum , Karthik , Mohammed Usman Hussain

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 today digital landscape, organizations face constantly evolving cyber threats, making it essential to discover slippery attack vectors through novel techniques like Security Chaos Engineering (SCE), which allows teams to test defenses…

Computing systems face diverse and substantial cybersecurity threats. To mitigate these cybersecurity threats, software engineers need to be competent in the skill of threat modeling. In industry and academia, there are many frameworks for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Siddhant S. Joshi , Preeti Mukherjee , Kirsten A. Davis , James C. Davis

A growing number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices are used across consumer, medical, and industrial domains. They interact with their environment through sensors and actuators and connect to networks such as the Internet. Because sensors…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Simon Liebl , Ian Ferguson , Andreas Aßmuth , Natalie Coull , George R. S. Weir

Modeling and analyzing security of networked systems is an important problem in the emerging Science of Security and has been under active investigation. In this paper, we propose a new approach towards tackling the problem. Our approach is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-03-29 Gaofeng Da , Maochao Xu , Shouhuai Xu

In recent years, there has been a growing concern with software integrity, that is, the assurance that software has not been tampered with on the path between developers and users. This path is represented by a software development pipeline…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-14 B. M. Reichert , R. R. Obelheiro