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2020

Cyber-physical systems

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Deep-Learning-Based App Sensitive Behavior Surveillance For Android Powered Cyber-Physical Systems, Haoyu Ma, Jianwen Tian, Kefan Qiu, David Lo, Debin Gao, Daoyuan Wu, Chunfu Jia, Thar Baker Nov 2020

Deep-Learning-Based App Sensitive Behavior Surveillance For Android Powered Cyber-Physical Systems, Haoyu Ma, Jianwen Tian, Kefan Qiu, David Lo, Debin Gao, Daoyuan Wu, Chunfu Jia, Thar Baker

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Android as an operating system is now increasingly being adopted in industrial information systems, especially with Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). This also puts Android devices onto the front line of handling security-related data and conducting sensitive behaviors, which could be misused by the increasing number of polymorphic and metamorphic malicous applications targeting the platform. The existence of such malware threats therefore call for more accurate identification and surveillance of sensitive Android app behaviors, which is essential to the security of CPS and IoT devices powered by Android. Nevertheless, achieving dynamic app behavior monitoring and identification on real CPS powered by Android …


Towards Systematically Deriving Defence Mechanisms From Functional Requirements Of Cyber-Physical Systems, Cheah Huei Yoong, Venkata Reddy Palleti, Arlindo Silva, Christopher M. Poskitt Oct 2020

Towards Systematically Deriving Defence Mechanisms From Functional Requirements Of Cyber-Physical Systems, Cheah Huei Yoong, Venkata Reddy Palleti, Arlindo Silva, Christopher M. Poskitt

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

The threats faced by cyber-physical systems (CPSs) in critical infrastructure have motivated the development of different attack detection mechanisms, such as those that monitor for violations of invariants, i.e. properties that always hold in normal operation. Given the complexity of CPSs, several existing approaches focus on deriving invariants automatically from data logs, but these can miss possible system behaviours if they are not represented in that data. Furthermore, resolving any design flaws identified in this process is costly, as the CPS is already built. In this position paper, we propose a systematic method for deriving invariants before a CPS is …


Active Fuzzing For Testing And Securing Cyber-Physical Systems, Yuqi Chen, Bohan Xuan, Christopher M. Poskitt, Jun Sun, Fan Zhang Jul 2020

Active Fuzzing For Testing And Securing Cyber-Physical Systems, Yuqi Chen, Bohan Xuan, Christopher M. Poskitt, Jun Sun, Fan Zhang

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Cyber-physical systems (CPSs) in critical infrastructure face a pervasive threat from attackers, motivating research into a variety of countermeasures for securing them. Assessing the effectiveness of these countermeasures is challenging, however, as realistic benchmarks of attacks are difficult to manually construct, blindly testing is ineffective due to the enormous search spaces and resource requirements, and intelligent fuzzing approaches require impractical amounts of data and network access. In this work, we propose active fuzzing, an automatic approach for finding test suites of packet-level CPS network attacks, targeting scenarios in which attackers can observe sensors and manipulate packets, but have no existing …


Learning-Guided Network Fuzzing For Testing Cyber-Physical System Defences, Yuqi Chen, Christopher M. Poskitt, Jun Sun, Sridhar Adepu, Fan Zhang Jan 2020

Learning-Guided Network Fuzzing For Testing Cyber-Physical System Defences, Yuqi Chen, Christopher M. Poskitt, Jun Sun, Sridhar Adepu, Fan Zhang

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

The threat of attack faced by cyber-physical systems (CPSs), especially when they play a critical role in automating public infrastructure, has motivated research into a wide variety of attack defence mechanisms. Assessing their effectiveness is challenging, however, as realistic sets of attacks to test them against are not always available. In this paper, we propose smart fuzzing, an automated, machine learning guided technique for systematically finding 'test suites' of CPS network attacks, without requiring any knowledge of the system's control programs or physical processes. Our approach uses predictive machine learning models and metaheuristic search algorithms to guide the fuzzing of …