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Ubiquitous Secure Technology

Citation
Saurabh Amin, Galina A. Schwartz, Shankar Sastry. "On the Interdependence of Reliability and Security in Networked Control Systems". 50th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference (CDC-ECC), IEEE, pp 4078-4083, 12, December, 2011.

Abstract
This paper studies player incentives to invest in network reliability and security. We consider heterogeneous networked control system (NCS) – also called players – facing a class of problems involving discrete interdependent risks. We formulate the problem of security choices of the individual NCS as a non-cooperative two-stage game, in which players make they security and control decisions, respectively. We characterize equilibria of the game, thus determining the individually optimal security levels. The presence of interdependent security causes a negative externality, and the individual players tend to under invest in security relative to the social optimum. From our results, security and reliability decisions are tightly coupled, and should be considered jointly to improve efficiency.

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  Decision and Control and European Control Conference
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  Saurabh Amin, Galina A. Schwartz, Shankar Sastry. "On
  the Interdependence of Reliability and Security in Networked
  Control Systems". 50th IEEE Conference on Decision and
  Control and European Control Conference (CDC-ECC), IEEE, pp
  4078-4083, 12, December, 2011.

• BibTeX

  @inproceedings{AminSchwartzSastry11_OnInterdependenceOfReliabilitySecurityInNetworkedControl,
      author = {Saurabh Amin and Galina A. Schwartz and Shankar
                Sastry},
      title = {On the Interdependence of Reliability and Security
                in Networked Control Systems},
      booktitle = {50th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and
                European Control Conference (CDC-ECC)},
      organization = {IEEE},
      pages = {pp 4078-4083},
      day = {12},
      month = {December},
      year = {2011},
      abstract = {This paper studies player incentives to invest in
                network reliability and security. We consider
                heterogeneous networked control system (NCS) –
                also called players – facing a class of problems
                involving discrete interdependent risks. We
                formulate the problem of security choices of the
                individual NCS as a non-cooperative two-stage
                game, in which players make they security and
                control decisions, respectively. We characterize
                equilibria of the game, thus determining the
                individually optimal security levels. The presence
                of interdependent security causes a negative
                externality, and the individual players tend to
                under invest in security relative to the social
                optimum. From our results, security and
                reliability decisions are tightly coupled, and
                should be considered jointly to improve efficiency.},
      URL = {http://www.truststc.org/pubs/826.html}
  }
  

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