Stackelberg Interdependent Security Game in Distributed and Hierarchical Cyber-Physical Systems

Security in Cyber-Physical Systems

Information Security is a domain of IT that has a well developed body of knowledge, and a cadre of practitioners with significant experience in securing IT systems. Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) also has a well developed body of knowledge and a well trained cadre of professionals that have been successfully running systems for years. These are two separate groups that would benefit from working ...

Cyber-Physical Systems Security and Privacy

4 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MDAT.2017.2713356 Date of current version: 30 June 2017.  The focus of this issue of IEEE Design&Test is on cyber–physical systems security and privacy. Research in cyber–physical systems (CPS) has enjoyed a large increase over the past years. The same holds for security and privacy. Hence, combining both in a special issue is very appealing. And indeed this...

Focus: Safety & Security in Cyber-physical Systems

Modeling security in cyber-physical systems

This paper describes a framework for modeling the security of a cyber–physical system in which the behavior of the adversary is controlled by a threat model that captures – in a unified manner – the cyber aspects (with discrete values) and the physical aspects (with continuous values) of the cyber–physical system. In particular, the framework addresses combined (dependent) vector attacks and sy...

Designed-in Security for Cyber-Physical Systems

T here are at least two types of security vulnerabilities: flawed or insufficient software behavior specifications that allow compromise—for example, authentication that is lacking or that can be spoofed—and incorrect implementation of specifications— buffer overflows being a classic example and Heartbleed being a notable recent one. The sad truth is that the state of the art in specification d...