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Main Authors: Ahmed, Chuadhry Mujeeb, Calder, Matthew, Gunawan, Sean, Prakash, Jay, Nagaraja, Shishir, Zhou, Jianying
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.16536
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  • Command injection and replay attacks are key threats in Cyber Physical Systems (CPS). We develop a novel actuator fingerprinting technique named Time Constant. Time Constant captures the transient dynamics of an actuator and physical process. The transient behavior is device-specific. We combine process and device transient characteristics to develop a copy-resistant actuator fingerprint that resists command injection and replay attacks in the face of insider adversaries. We validated the proposed scheme on data from a real water treatment testbed, as well as through real-time attack detection in the live plant. Our results show that we can uniquely distinguish between process states and actuators based on their Time Constant.