Security and Privacy of Cyber-Physical Systems (SPCPS)

Special Session Scope

This session focuses on tools, techniques and architectures for security and privacy-aware design of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). Such systems are characterized by periodic/event-driven communication between physical processes and control law computation. Such computations mostly happen on resource constrained embedded platforms, e.g. automotive ECUs, industrial PLCs etc. Given the nature of such implementation platforms along with communication bandwidth constraints, the aspect of security and privacy is often an afterthought in standard CPS design techniques. However, most CPS applications are safety critical in nature thus mandating primitives for securing possible attack surfaces against leakage of system related information as well as private data of system users. Leakage of system dynamics can help an attacker craft suitable stealthy attacks while leakage of user data may lead to user identification. Also, such leakages may lead to more damaging higher order attacks. In this regard, the topics of interest for this session include, but does not limit itself to the following research aspects.

Design and Validation Strategies
Formalizing CPS threat models and attack scenarios
Formal verification of CPS security primitives (Transportation/Medical/Industrial-control
Power system and other domains)
AI/ML based and formal techniques for attack detection in CPS
Security aware controller design for CPS, Secure state estimation for CPS
Design exploration of secure CPS (area, power, performance, security)
Applications
Securing automotive control loops with control theoretic techniques
Security aspects of safety-critical CPS and automotive networks (intra and inter vehicle)
Protection against sensor attacks in CPS (e.g., autonomous driving, process control)
Securing industrial control systems, automotive ECUs, etc
Privacy-aware metering schemes and control design for Smart Grids

Submission Guidelines

Authors are encouraged to submit their manuscripts via EasyChair web service at web page https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dsd2022. Each manuscript should include the complete paper text, all illustrations, and references. The manuscript should conform to the IEEE format: single-spaced, double column, US letter page size, 10-point size Times Roman font, up to 8 pages. In order to conduct a blind review, no indication of the authors’ names should appear in the manuscript, references included.