Assessing the Physical Impact of Cyberattacks on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems

Industrial cyber-physical systems (ICPSs) are widely applied in critical infrastructures such as chemical plants, water distribution networks, and power grids. However, they face various cyberattacks, which may cause physical damage to these industrial facilities. Therefore, ensuring the security of...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on industrial electronics (1982) 2018-10, Vol.65 (10), p.8153-8162
Main Authors: Huang, Kaixing, Zhou, Chunjie, Tian, Yu-Chu, Yang, Shuanghua, Qin, Yuanqing
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Actuators
Bayes methods
Bayesian
Bayesian analysis
Chemical attack
Computational modeling
Computer simulation
Cyber-physical systems
Cybersecurity
Electric power distribution
Electric power grids
Hardware-in-the-loop simulation
Hybrid systems
industrial cyber-physical system (ICPS)
Risk assessment
Risk management
Security
Sensors
stochastic hybrid system (SHS)
Stochastic processes
Water distribution
Water engineering
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Summary:Industrial cyber-physical systems (ICPSs) are widely applied in critical infrastructures such as chemical plants, water distribution networks, and power grids. However, they face various cyberattacks, which may cause physical damage to these industrial facilities. Therefore, ensuring the security of ICPSs is of paramount importance. For this purpose, a new risk assessment method is presented in this paper to quantify the impact of cyberattacks on the physical system of ICPSs. This method helps carry out appropriate attack mitigation measures. The method uses a Bayesian network to model the attack propagation process and infers the probabilities of sensors and actuators to be compromised. These probabilities are fed into a stochastic hybrid system (SHS) model to predict the evolution of the physical process being controlled. Then, the security risk is quantified by evaluating the system availability with the SHS model. The effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated with a case study on a hardware-in-the-loop simulation test bed.
ISSN:0278-0046
1557-9948
DOI:10.1109/TIE.2018.2798605