A Tutorial Introduction to Security and Privacy for Cyber-Physical Systems

This tutorial provides a high-level introduction to novel control-theoretic approaches for the security and privacy of cyber-physical systems (CPS). It takes a risk-based approach to the problem and develops a model framework that allows us to introduce and relate many of the recent contributions to the area. In particular, we explore the concept of risk in the context of CPS under cyber-attacks, paying special attention to the characterization of attack scenarios and to the interpretation of impact and likelihood for CPS. The risk management framework is then used to give an overview of and map different contributions in the area to three core parts of the framework: attack scenario description, quantification of impact and likelihood, and mitigation strategies. The overview is by no means complete, but it illustrates the breadth of the problems considered and the control-theoretic solutions proposed so far.