Graph Analytics for Cyber-Physical System Resilience Quantification

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Auteurs principaux: Dagnas, Romain, Barbeau, Michel, Garcia-Alfaro, Joaquin, Yaich, Reda
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author Dagnas, Romain
Barbeau, Michel
Garcia-Alfaro, Joaquin
Yaich, Reda
author_facet Dagnas, Romain
Barbeau, Michel
Garcia-Alfaro, Joaquin
Yaich, Reda
contents Critical infrastructures integrate a wide range of smart technologies and become highly connected to the cyber world. This is especially true for Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs), which integrate hardware and software components. Despite the advantages of smart infrastructures, they remain vulnerable to cyberattacks. This work focuses on the cyber resilience of CPSs. We propose a methodology based on knowledge graph modeling and graph analytics to quantify the resilience potential of complex systems by using a multilayered model based on knowledge graphs. Our methodology also allows us to identify critical points. These critical points are components or functions of an architecture that can generate critical failures if attacked. Thus, identifying them can help enhance resilience and avoid cascading effects. We use the SWaT (Secure Water Treatment) testbed as a use case to achieve this objective. This system mimics the actual behavior of a water treatment station in Singapore. We model three resilient designs of SWaT according to our multilayered model. We conduct a resilience assessment based on three relevant metrics used in graph analytics. We compare the results obtained with each metric and discuss their accuracy in identifying critical points. We perform an experimentation analysis based on the knowledge gained by a cyber adversary about the system architecture. We show that the most resilient SWaT design has the necessary potential to bounce back and absorb the attacks. We discuss our results and conclude this work by providing further research axes.
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spellingShingle Graph Analytics for Cyber-Physical System Resilience Quantification
Dagnas, Romain
Barbeau, Michel
Garcia-Alfaro, Joaquin
Yaich, Reda
Cryptography and Security
Critical infrastructures integrate a wide range of smart technologies and become highly connected to the cyber world. This is especially true for Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs), which integrate hardware and software components. Despite the advantages of smart infrastructures, they remain vulnerable to cyberattacks. This work focuses on the cyber resilience of CPSs. We propose a methodology based on knowledge graph modeling and graph analytics to quantify the resilience potential of complex systems by using a multilayered model based on knowledge graphs. Our methodology also allows us to identify critical points. These critical points are components or functions of an architecture that can generate critical failures if attacked. Thus, identifying them can help enhance resilience and avoid cascading effects. We use the SWaT (Secure Water Treatment) testbed as a use case to achieve this objective. This system mimics the actual behavior of a water treatment station in Singapore. We model three resilient designs of SWaT according to our multilayered model. We conduct a resilience assessment based on three relevant metrics used in graph analytics. We compare the results obtained with each metric and discuss their accuracy in identifying critical points. We perform an experimentation analysis based on the knowledge gained by a cyber adversary about the system architecture. We show that the most resilient SWaT design has the necessary potential to bounce back and absorb the attacks. We discuss our results and conclude this work by providing further research axes.
title Graph Analytics for Cyber-Physical System Resilience Quantification
topic Cryptography and Security
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.02120