Handbook on Securing Cyber-Physical Critical Infrastructure

Chapter 1

Security and Vulnerability of Cyber-Physical Infrastructure Networks: A Control-Theoretic Approach

Mengran Xue, Sandip Roy, Yan Wan and Sajal K. Das

1.1 Introduction

The purpose of this chapter is to (1) introduce notions of security for the physical dynamics of complex cyber-physical networks and (2) provide a tutorial on control-theoretic tools for network inference that are promising for evaluation of such dynamic notions of security.

Classically, computer scientists and infrastructure network engineers have conceptualized the modeling and resolution of threats and uncertainties in vastly different ways. In a very broad sense, computer scientists have extensively studied threat and uncertainty resolution from the perspective of ...