Title
Information Flow For Security In Control Systems
Abstract
This paper considers the development of information flow analyses to support resilient design and active detection of adversaries in cyber physical systems (CPS). CPS security, though well studied, suffers from fragmentation. In this paper, we consider control systems as an abstraction of CPS. Here, we use information flow analysis, a well established set of methods developed in software security, to obtain a unified framework that captures and extends results in control system security. Specifically, we propose the Kullback Liebler (KL) divergence as a causal measure of information flow, which quantifies the effect of adversarial inputs on sensor outputs. We show that the proposed measure characterizes the resilience of control systems to specific attack strategies by relating the KL divergence to optimal detection. We then relate information flows to stealthy attack scenarios where an adversary can bypass detection. Finally, this article examines active detection mechanisms where a defender intelligently manipulates control inputs or the system itself to elicit information flows from an attacker's malicious behavior. In all previous cases, we demonstrate an ability to investigate and extend existing results through the proposed information flow analyses.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/CDC.2016.7799044
2016 IEEE 55TH CONFERENCE ON DECISION AND CONTROL (CDC)
DocType
Volume
ISSN
Conference
abs/1603.05710
0743-1546
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
6
0.59
11
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sean Weerakkody11317.80
Bruno Sinopoli22837188.08
Soummya Kar31874115.60
Anupam Datta4161787.21