Visible to the public Understanding the impact of cyber-physical correlation on security analysis of Cyber-Physical Systems

TitleUnderstanding the impact of cyber-physical correlation on security analysis of Cyber-Physical Systems
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2021
AuthorsJiang, Luanjuan, Chen, Xin
Conference Name2021 IEEE Intl Conf on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing, Intl Conf on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing, Intl Conf on Cloud and Big Data Computing, Intl Conf on Cyber Science and Technology Congress (DASC/PiCom/CBDCom/CyberSciTech)
Date Publishedoct
KeywordsCorrelation, Costs, cyber-physical system, Games, impact, interdependence, Physical layer, pubcrawl, q-learning, resilience, Resiliency, Scalability, security analysis, simulation, Stochastic Computing Security, Stochastic game, Stochastic processes
AbstractCyber-Physical Systems(CPS) have been experiencing a fast-growing process in recent decades, and related security issues also have become more important than ever before. To design an efficient defensive policy for operators and controllers is the utmost task to be considered. In this paper, a stochastic game-theoretic model is developed to study a CPS security problem by considering the interdependence between cyber and physical spaces of a CPS. The game model is solved with Minimax Q-learning for finding the mixed strategies equilibria. The numerical simulation revealed that the defensive factors and attack cost can affect the policies adopted by the system. From the perspective of the operator of a CPS, increasing successful defense probability in the phrase of disruption will help to improve the probability of defense strategy when there is a correlation between the cyber layer and the physical layer in a CPS. On the contrary side, the system defense probability will decrease as the total cost of the physical layer increases.
DOI10.1109/DASC-PICom-CBDCom-CyberSciTech52372.2021.00093
Citation Keyjiang_understanding_2021