Title
Generating Cyber-Physical System Risk Overlays for Attack and Fault Trees using Systems Theory
Abstract
ABSTRACTWe describe a formalized systems theoretic method for creating cyber-physical system (CPS) risk overlays that augment existing tree-based models used in CPS risk and threat analysis processes. This top-down approach objectively scopes the system's threat surface for some risk scenario consequence by analyzing its underlying control attributes and communication flows between relevant internal hardware and software sub-components. The resulting analysis should assist with the qualitative selection of causal events when utilizing attack and fault tree models, which have traditionally conducted this event selection using subjective and bottom-up methods. Objectively scoping the tree-based model analysis using a proven systems theoretic approach should also improve defensive and safety planning during the system development life cycle. We provide a control system case study using attack-defense trees and show how this approach may also be reduced to attack trees, fault trees, and attack-fault trees.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1145/3510547.3517922
Data and Application Security and Privacy
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Matthew Jablonski100.34
Duminda Wijesekera21464141.54
Anoop Singhal3576168.78