Cyber Physical System: Security and Resilience Challenges and Solutions

Dear Colleagues,

Cyber Physical System (CPS) interconnects cyber and physical infrastructure that is now widely adopted in different sectors specifically the critical infrastructure sector, including smart grid, transport, healthcare, and others. CPS is inherently complex with heterogeneous infrastructure and adopts emerging technologies such as data analytics, Internet of Things (IoT), sensors, and cloud computing to support its operations. This certainly increases the efficiency of the service delivery, but at the same time, CPS has to face the known and unknown attack- surfaces that can be exploited for any potential risk that can even cause catastrophic consequences. There is a need not only to ensure the security of the overall CPS but also the survivability of the key functionalities regardless of a successful adverse attack. However, ensuring the security and resilience of CPS is a challenging tasks due to a number of reasons, notably the unique threats and attack patterns of sector-specific CPS, the evolving threat landscape, and the continuous evolution of the system and its surrounding context. In this context, this Special Issue aims to investigate state-of-the-art practices to tackle the security and resilience challenges of CPS.

This Special Issue will include methods, technologies, processes, solutions, and tools on the topic of security and resilience of CPS.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Unique sector-specific attack pattern and defense strategies for CPS;
• Dynamic risk management;
• AI-enabled solutions for security and resilience;
• Incident detection and response;
• Resilience framework for CPS;
• Threat intelligence and information sharing;
• Threat modelling and vulnerability assessment;
• Virtual reality-based simulation and evaluation;
• Advanced penetration testing;
• Cyber security certification scheme;
• Best practice for legal compliance;
• Conformity with AI and digital resilience act.

Dr. Shareeful Islam
Dr. Sotiris Ioannidis
Dr. Spyros Papastergiou
Prof. Dr. Marc-Oliver Pahl
Guest Editors

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• cybersecurity
• resilience
• cyber physical systems
• risk management
• vulnerability assessment
• intrusion detection and response
• incident response
• AI and digital resilience act