A scalable specification-agnostic multi-sensor anomaly detection system for IIoT environments

Wissam Aoudi and Magnus Almgren

International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection, 2020, vol. 30, issue C

Abstract: Advanced sensing is a key ingredient for intelligent control in Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) environments. Coupled with enhanced communication capabilities, sensors are becoming increasingly vulnerable to cyberattacks, thereby jeopardizing the often safety-critical underlying cyber-physical system. One prominent approach to sensor-level attack detection in modern industrial environments, named pasad, has recently been proposed in the literature. Pasad is a process-aware stealthy-attack detection mechanism that has shown promising capabilities in detecting anomalous, potentially malicious behavior through real-time monitoring of sensor measurements. Although fast and lightweight, a major limitation of pasad is that it is univariate, meaning that only a single sensor can be monitored by one instance of the algorithm. This impediment poses serious concerns on its scalability, especially in modernized industrial environments, which typically employ a plethora of sensors. This paper generalizes pasad to the multivariate case, where a plurality of sensors can be monitored concurrently with little added complexity. This generalization has the evident advantage of offering scalability potential for deployment in future-focused industrial environments, which are undergoing growing integration between the digital and physical worlds.

Keywords: IIoT; PASAD; Departure-based detection; Critical infrastructure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcip.2020.100377

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