Science of Security

A body of knowledge containing laws, axioms and provable theories relating to some aspect of system security.
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Visible to the public CfP: ICCPS 2023

CALL FOR PAPERS

14th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS 2023)

May 9-12, 2023 | San Antonio, Texas, USA | https://iccps.acm.org/2023/
 

Important dates (AoE):

Abstract registration: October 24, 2022 
Paper submission: October 31, 2022 
Decision notification: January 20, 2023 
Camera-ready: March 10, 2023

 

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Visible to the public  HiPEAC 2023
Jan 16, 2023 6:00 am - Jan 18, 2023 7:00 pm CET

The HiPEAC conference is the premier European forum for experts in computer architecture, programming models, compilers and operating systems for general-purpose, embedded and cyber-physical systems. Areas of focus and integration include safety-critical dependencies, cybersecurity, energy efficiency and machine learning.

The HiPEAC 2023 conference will take place in Toulouse, France. Associated workshops, tutorials, special sessions, several large poster session and an industrial exhibition will run in parallel with the conference.

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Visible to the public Post-doc on model-based security of medical cyber-physical systems

- Application deadline: Midnight, 25 March 2022 (GMT)

- Starting date: 1 July 2022

- Salary: starting from PS36,438 p.a. (inclusive of London allowance)

- Duration: until June 2025

- Where: Royal Holloway, University of London

We have a post-doc opportunity on the EPSRC project "MCPS-VeriSec: Model-based Security of Medical Cyber-Physical Systems", led by Nicola Paoletti.

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Visible to the public IEEE SMARTCOMP 2021: Call for Participation

                   IEEE SMARTCOMP 2021 .::. Call for Participation .::.
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The 7th IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP 2021), August 23-27, 2021.

Due to uncertainties associated with the pandemic, IEEE SMARTCOMP 2021 will be held as a virtual conference.

https://www.smart-comp.info

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Visible to the public Resiliency-Aware Deployment of SDN in Smart Grid SCADA: A Formal Synthesis Model

The supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) network in a smart grid must be reliable and efficient to transmit real-time data to the controller, especially when the system is under contingencies or cyberattacks. Introducing the features of software-defined networks (SDN) into a SCADA network helps in better management of communication and deployment of novel grid control operations.

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Visible to the public DDAF: Deceptive Data Acquisition Framework against Stealthy Attacks in Cyber-Physical Systems

Cyber-physical systems (CPSs) and the Internet of Things (IoT) are converging towards a hybrid platform that is becoming ubiquitous in all modern infrastructures. The massive deployment of CPS requires comprehensive, secure, and reliable communication. The integration of complex and heterogeneous systems makes enormous space for the adversaries to get into the network and inject malicious data. To obfuscate and mislead the attackers, we propose DDAF, a deception defense-based data acquisition framework for a hierarchical communication network of CPSs.

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Visible to the public Secure Control in Partially Observable Environments to Satisfy LTL Specifications

This paper studies the synthesis of control

policies for an agent that has to satisfy a temporal logic

specification in a partially observable environment, in

the presence of an adversary. The interaction of the

agent (defender) with the adversary is modeled as a partially

observable stochastic game. The goal is to generate

a defender policy to maximize satisfaction of a given

temporal logic specification under any adversary policy.

The search for policies is limited to the space of finite

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Visible to the public Control Synthesis for Cyber-Physical Systems to Satisfy MITL Objectives under Timing and Actuator Atta

This paper studies the synthesis of controllers for

cyber-physical systems (CPSs) that are required to carry out

complex tasks that are time-sensitive, in the presence of an

adversary. The task is specified as a formula in metric interval

temporal logic (MITL). The adversary is assumed to have the

ability to tamper with the control input to the CPS and also

manipulate timing information perceived by the CPS. In order

to model the interaction between the CPS and the adversary, and

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Visible to the public  Confronting Realities: A Vision for Cybersecurity Resilience
Mar 31, 2021 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT

The U.S. is confronted with unprecedented cybersecurity challenges. President Biden has declared that tackling these challenges is a top priority for the Biden-Harris administration. Join us for this special event with US Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro N. Mayorkas, who will outline his vision and roadmap for the Department's cybersecurity efforts. The Secretary will be joined by the Girl Scouts' Interim CEO, Judith Batty for a fireside chat. Dr.