Vulnerability of Cyber-Physical Systems to Stealth Attacks: Application to a Chemical Process

With the proliferation of mobile and highly connected electronic devices and their incorporation into physical infrastructures like chemical plants, the safety of cyber-physical systems has become an extremely important issue. Detection of adversarial, well-directed attacks and measures to minimize their impact on the bottom line safety and performance are gaining a lot of importance. This work applies some of the recently published results on the vulnerability of a CPS representable as a linear stochastic dynamical system to a typical chemical process and understand how robust it is to stealthy attacks and how its performance changes for different attack scenarios.

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This research applies recent findings on the vulnerability of cyber-physical systems to detect their robustness to stealthy attacks. The aim is to minimize the impact of attacks on bottom line safety and performance.