Adversary emulation is an offensive exercise that provides a comprehensive assessment of a system's resilience against cyber attacks. However, adversary emulation is typically a manual process, making it costly and hard to deploy in cyber-physical systems (CPS) with complex dynamics, vulnerabilities, and operational uncertainties. In this paper, we develop an automated, domain-aware approach to adversary emulation for CPS. We formulate a Markov Decision Process (MDP) model to determine an optimal attack sequence over a hybrid attack graph with cyber (discrete) and physical (continuous) components and related physical dynamics. We apply model-based and model-free reinforcement learning (RL) methods to solve the discrete-continuous MDP in a tractable fashion. As a baseline, we also develop a greedy attack algorithm and compare it with the RL procedures. We summarize our findings through a numerical study on sensor deception attacks in buildings to compare the performance and solution quality of the proposed algorithms.
Cyber-Physical Security and Safety of Autonomous Connected Vehicles: Optimal Control Meets Multi-Armed Bandit Learning
Centre for Wireless Communications (CWC), University of Oulu, Finland(奥卢大学无线通信中心(CWC));WINLAB, Dept. of ECE, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA(罗格斯大学WINLAB,电子与计算机工程系,新泽西州新布朗斯维尔,美国)
Towards Production-Worthy Simulation for Autonomous Cyber Operations
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering(电气与计算机工程系);Royal Military College of Canada(加拿大皇家军事学院);Department of Mathematics and Computer Science(数学与计算机科学系);Defence Research and Development Canada(加拿大国防研究发展署);Department of Computer and Software Engineering(计算机与软件工程系)
Ben-Gurion University(本-古里安大学);University of Cagliari(卡利亚里大学);Microsoft(微软);Nanyang Technological University(南洋理工大学);Purdue(普渡大学);Georgia Institute of Technology(佐治亚理工学院);Pluribus One(Pluribus One公司)
ACDZero: MCTS Agent for Mastering Automated Cyber Defense
Dept of ECE, George Washington University(电子工程系,乔治华盛顿大学);Dept of ECE, Northeastern University(电子工程系,东北大学);Dept of EECS, United States Military Academy(电子工程与科学系,美国军事学院)