A modeling framework for critical infrastructure and its application in detecting cyber-attacks on a water distribution system

Vishrut Kumar Mishra, Venkata Reddy Palleti and Aditya Mathur

International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection, 2019, vol. 26, issue C

Abstract: Critical infrastructure (CI), such as systems for water treatment, water distribution, power generation and distribution, is vital for the well being of a society. Such systems are typically large, complex, and interconnected. A cyber-attack on one such system could affect the other. In this work, a generic agent-based framework is proposed to aid in modeling a CI. Combined with a proposed methodology, the framework can be used to model a CI, and those connected to it, as an aid to understanding their collective behavior when subjected to cyber attacks. In a case study, the proposed framework was used to create a model of an operational water distribution system and validated experimentally using a set of cyber attacks launched against an implementation of the model.

Keywords: Agent-based modeling; Attack detection; Critical infrastructures; Cyber-physical attacks; Cyber-physical systems; Cyber security; Industrial control systems (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcip.2019.05.001

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