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While virtualization and resource pooling empower cloud networks with structural flexibility and elastic scalability, they inevitably expand the attack surface and challenge cyber resilience. Reinforcement Learning (RL)-based defense…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Yixiao Peng , Hao Hu , Feiyang Li , Xinye Cao , Yingchang Jiang , Jipeng Tang , Guoshun Nan , Yuling Liu

The term "cyber resilience by design" is growing in popularity. Here, by cyber resilience we refer to the ability of the system to resist, minimize and mitigate a degradation caused by a successful cyber-attack on a system or network of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Alexander Kott , Maureen S. Golan , Benjamin D. Trump , Igor Linkov

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

The scale of Internet-connected systems has increased considerably, and these systems are being exposed to cyber attacks more than ever. The complexity and dynamics of cyber attacks require protecting mechanisms to be responsive, adaptive,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Thanh Thi Nguyen , Vijay Janapa Reddi

Recent advancements in deep learning techniques have opened new possibilities for designing solutions for autonomous cyber defence. Teams of intelligent agents in computer network defence roles may reveal promising avenues to safeguard…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Jacob Wiebe , Ranwa Al Mallah , Li Li

Cybersecurity is being fundamentally reshaped by foundation-model-based artificial intelligence. Large language models now enable autonomous planning, tool orchestration, and strategic adaptation at scale, challenging security architectures…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Tao Li , Quanyan Zhu

The evolution of networked systems, driven by innovations in software-defined networking (SDN), network function virtualization (NFV), open radio access networks (O-RAN), and cloud-native architectures, is redefining both the operational…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Junaid Farooq , Quanyan Zhu

Measuring and evaluating network resilience has become an important aspect since the network is vulnerable to both uncertain disturbances and malicious attacks. Networked systems are often composed of many dynamic components and change over…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Shanqing Jiang , Lin Yang , Guang Cheng , Xianming Gao , Tao Feng , Yuyang Zhou

With the increasing system complexity and attack sophistication, the necessity of autonomous cyber defense becomes vivid for cyber and cyber-physical systems (CPSs). Many existing frameworks in the current state-of-the-art either rely on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Ashutosh Dutta , Ehab Al-Shaer , Samrat Chatterjee

Our societies are increasingly dependent on services supplied by computers & their software. New technology only exacerbates this dependence by increasing the number, performance, and degree of autonomy and inter-connectivity of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-03-19 De Florio Vincenzo

The present article introduces a reference framework for discussing resilience of computational systems. Rather than a property that may or may not be exhibited by a system, resilience is interpreted here as the emerging result of a dynamic…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-04-13 Vincenzo De Florio

A significant challenge for autonomous cyber defence is ensuring a defensive agent's ability to generalise across diverse network topologies and configurations. This capability is necessary for agents to remain effective when deployed in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Isaac Symes Thompson , Alberto Caron , Chris Hicks , Vasilios Mavroudis

From denial-of-service attacks to spreading of ransomware or other malware across an organization's network, it is possible that manually operated defenses are not able to respond in real time at the scale required, and when a breach is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Alexandre K. Ligo , Alexander Kott , Igor Linkov

Cyber-physical systems integrate computation, communication, and physical capabilities to interact with the physical world and humans. Besides failures of components, cyber-physical systems are prone to malignant attacks, and specific…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-03-13 Fabio Pasqualetti , Florian Dörfler , Francesco Bullo

The increasing reliance on cyber physical infrastructure in modern power systems has amplified the risk of targeted cyber attacks, necessitating robust and adaptive resilience strategies. This paper presents a mathematically rigorous game…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-11 S Krishna Niketh , Sagar Babu Mitikiri , V Vignesh , Vedantham Lakshmi Srinivas , Mayukha Pal

Despite the successful application of machine learning (ML) in a wide range of domains, adaptability---the very property that makes machine learning desirable---can be exploited by adversaries to contaminate training and evade…

To design critical systems engineers must be able to prove that their system can continue with its mission even after losing control authority over some of its actuators. Such a malfunction results in actuators producing possibly…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-06 Jean-Baptiste Bouvier , Kathleen Xu , Melkior Ornik

Modern power systems face increasing vulnerability to sophisticated cyber-physical attacks beyond traditional N-1 contingency frameworks. Existing security paradigms face a critical bottleneck: efficiently identifying worst-case scenarios…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-17 Saman Mazaheri Khamaneh , Tong Wu , Wei Sun , Cong Chen

Cyber Resilience is an important property of complex systems and is important consideration in developing specific IoT applications. This work aims at introducing a novel approach to assess IoT resilience adopting the risk perception in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Emanuele Bellini , Franco Bagnoli , Alexander A. Ganin , Igor Linkov

Quantifying cyber risks is essential for organizations to grasp their vulnerability to threats and make informed decisions. However, current approaches still need to work on blending economic viewpoints to provide insightful analysis. To…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Muriel Figueredo Franco , Aiatur Rahaman Mullick , Santosh Jha