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Alefiya Hussain, Saurabh Amin. "NCS Security Experimentation Using DETER". Proceedings of the 1st International ACM Conference on High Confidence Networked Systems (HiCoNS), April, 2012.

Abstract
Networked control systems (NCS) are increasingly being used for operational management of large-scale physical infrastructures, and inherit the vulnerabilities of commercial IT solutions. In recent years, numerous studies have focused on the study of interconnected physical and cyber-based processes of NCS and next-generation supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems. Especially important is the interdependence between random failures (e.g., due to sensor-actuator faults) and adversarial failures (e.g., due to malicious software). The existing theoretical analyses typically assume class of attacker-defender models, and rigorously use tools from robust control and game theory to derive safety and performance bounds for NCS models. However, in order to develop practically implementable diagnostic tools and real-time response mechanisms, these attacker-defender models should be benchmarked and evaluated against real-world threat scenarios. Indeed, experimental research in network security highlights the accuracy and level of modeling detail, and focuses on developing techniques for security evaluation by combining real and simulated components. Such experimental research is necessary to complement theoretical performance bounds, and will enable researchers to address new developments in smart infrastructures that face emerging threats, and yet account for the challenges of realism, fidelity, and scale as these networked systems expand in size and functionality.

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  Alefiya Hussain, Saurabh Amin. "NCS Security
  Experimentation Using DETER". Proceedings of the 1st
  International ACM Conference on High Confidence Networked
  Systems (HiCoNS), April, 2012.

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  @inproceedings{HussainAmin12_NCSSecurityExperimentationUsingDETER,
      author = {Alefiya Hussain and Saurabh Amin},
      title = {NCS Security Experimentation Using DETER},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of the 1st International ACM
                Conference on High Confidence Networked Systems
                (HiCoNS)},
      month = {April},
      year = {2012},
      abstract = {Networked control systems (NCS) are increasingly
                being used for operational management of
                large-scale physical infrastructures, and inherit
                the vulnerabilities of commercial IT solutions. In
                recent years, numerous studies have focused on the
                study of interconnected physical and cyber-based
                processes of NCS and next-generation supervisory
                control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems.
                Especially important is the interdependence
                between random failures (e.g., due to
                sensor-actuator faults) and adversarial failures
                (e.g., due to malicious software). The existing
                theoretical analyses typically assume class of
                attacker-defender models, and rigorously use tools
                from robust control and game theory to derive
                safety and performance bounds for NCS models.
                However, in order to develop practically
                implementable diagnostic tools and real-time
                response mechanisms, these attacker-defender
                models should be benchmarked and evaluated against
                real-world threat scenarios. Indeed, experimental
                research in network security highlights the
                accuracy and level of modeling detail, and focuses
                on developing techniques for security evaluation
                by combining real and simulated components. Such
                experimental research is necessary to complement
                theoretical performance bounds, and will enable
                researchers to address new developments in smart
                infrastructures that face emerging threats, and
                yet account for the challenges of realism,
                fidelity, and scale as these networked systems
                expand in size and functionality.},
      URL = {http://www.truststc.org/pubs/904.html}
  }
  

Posted by Larry Rohrbough on 23 May 2012.
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