CSP-CPS-A-ICA · Cybersecurity Protection for Cyber-Physical Systems Against Integrity Cyberattacks

Cybersecurity Protection for Cyber-Physical Systems Against Integrity Cyberattacks

Modern control systems integrate information and communication in cyber world and computation in the physical world, which are called cyber-physical systems (CPS), and are currently at a high risk to cyberattacks. Developing cybersecurity protection technologies for CPSs against cyberattacks satisfies the increasing security and safety requirements. Stealthiness is a critical challenge to handle cyber attacks. Unfortunately, associated research is currently not sufficiently since no nonlinearities and interconnections are considered. Complex nonlinearities and interconnections exist in most modern complex industrial control. Traditional anomaly detectors (TADs) concerned more on unintelligent faults of physical components such as actuators and sensors. Cyber attacks are endowed with intelligence and intents by hackers using rational attack models. This allows them to bypass TADs without being detected. Due to the integration of physical components and cyber communication networks in a CPS loop, a novel safety and security problem has arisen, i.e., distinguishing cyberattacks and physical failures. This project contributes towards a knowledge-based economy by applying highly technical information tools and methodologies to protect the cybersecurity of the future industrial CPSs. This project develops cybersecurity protection schemes that provide cybersecurity protecting services to industrial CPSs. This improves the security level of the industrial CPSs against malicious cyberattacks. Such an achievement is among the goals of Internet Governance Forum (IGF) convened annually by the UN Secretary-General and established by the support of UN Sustainable Development Goals. Furthermore, such research is in line with the aims of “Threat and Risk Management” of ENISA, and also belongs to the target “A Europe fit for the digital age” that is one of the 6 European Commission priorities for 2019-2024. The overall scope of this project is to provide effective, efficient and reliable cybersecurity protections for industrial control systems. It includes proposing novel attack strategies and attack models to reveal the stealthiness of IC attacks in complex CPSs, proposing advanced cyberattack detecting methodologies and designing RD schemes to identify the occurring risk types. A further objective of the project is to enhance my career prospects.

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