Publication Type : Conference Proceedings
Thematic Areas : Amrita Center for Cybersecurity Systems and Networks
Publisher : 2017 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics-Asia
Source : 2017 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics-Asia (ICCE-Asia), IEEE, Bangalore, India (2017)
Keywords : Actuators, communication network, communication networks, computer network security, Critical infrastructures, Cryptography, cyber attacks, Deception attacks, Denial of Service attacks, DoS attacks, mathematical model, MATLAB, MATLAB/Simulink, NCS, networked control systems, Security, Security mechanism, Sensors, Smart cities, TrueTime
Campus : Amritapuri
School : Centre for Cybersecurity Systems and Networks, School of Engineering
Center : Cyber Security
Department : cyber Security
Year : 2017
Abstract : Networked Control Systems (NCS) have emerged as a viable solution to effectively manage critical infrastructures in smart cities and modern industrial settings. The networked architecture of NCS that facilitates the communication between its distributed components makes them vulnerable to cyber attacks. The vulnerabilities in the communication network coupled with safety critical nature of data necessitates the need to develop models to analyze the impact of cyber attacks on system stability and performance. In this work, we develop an analytical model for Denial of Service (DoS) and Deception attacks in NCS. Based on the insights from the model, we propose a mechanism based on symmetric key encryption to secure NCS from such attacks. The comparison of our security mechanism with the standard reference signal demonstrates that our approach is successful in securing the NCS with minimal performance overhead.
Cite this Research Publication : J. Jithish and Sankaran, S., “Securing networked control systems: Modeling attacks and defenses”, 2017 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics-Asia (ICCE-Asia). IEEE, Bangalore, India, 2017.