Resilient Architectures

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Visible to the public Resilient Control of Cyber-Physical Systems with Distributed Learning

Submitted by Heather Lucas on Wed, 01/29/2020 - 4:56pm

Investigators: Sayan Mitra, Geir Dullerud, and Sanjay Shakkotai

Researchers: Pulkit Katdare and Negin Musavi

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Visible to the public Formal Approaches to the Ontology & Epistemology of Resilience

Submitted by Warren Alexander on Mon, 03/19/2018 - 9:07pm

Security Science requires reflection on its foundational concepts. Our contention is that in order to make informed decisions about trade-offs with respect to resilient properties of systems we must first precisely characterize the differences between the mechanisms underlying valuable functions, those functions themselves, and the conditions underlying the persistence of the systems in question.

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Visible to the public Cloud-Assisted IoT Systems Privacy

Submitted by Warren Alexander on Mon, 03/19/2018 - 9:06pm

The key to realizing the smart functionalities envisioned through the Internet of Things (IoT) is to securely and efficiently communicate, store, and make sense of the tremendous data generated by IoT devices. Therefore, integrating IoT with the cloud platform for its computing and big data analysis capabilities becomes increasingly important, since IoT devices are computational units with strict performance and energy constraints. However, when data is transferred among interconnected devices or to the cloud, new security and privacy issues arise.

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Visible to the public Uncertainty in Security Analysis

Submitted by David Nicol on Mon, 03/19/2018 - 9:03pm

Cyber-physical system (CPS) security lapses may lead to catastrophic failure. We are interested in the scientific basis for discovering unique CPS security vulnerabilities to stepping-stone attacks that penetrate through network of intermediate hosts to the ultimate targets, the compromise of which leads to instability, unsafe behaviors, and ultimately diminished availability. Our project advances this scientific basis through design and evaluation of CPS, driven by uncertainty-aware formalization of system models, adversary classes, and security metrics.

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Visible to the public Monitoring, Fusion, and Response for Cyber Resilience

Submitted by David Nicol on Mon, 03/19/2018 - 9:02pm

We believe that diversity and redundancy can help us prevent an attacker from hiding all of his or her traces. Therefore, we will strategically deploy diverse security monitors and build a set of techniques to combine information originating at the monitors. We have shown that we can formulate monitor deployment as a constrained optimization problem wherein the objective function is the utility of monitors in detecting intrusions.