Cyber-physical systems security: Limitations, issues and future trends

JPA Yaacoub, O Salman, HN Noura… - Microprocessors and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Typically, Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) involve various interconnected systems,
which can monitor and manipulate real objects and processes. They are closely related to …

A Survey on Programmable Logic Controller Vulnerabilities, Attacks, Detections, and Forensics

Z Wang, Y Zhang, Y Chen, H Liu, B Wang, C Wang - Processes, 2023 - mdpi.com
Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs), as specialized task-oriented embedded field
devices, play a vital role in current industrial control systems (ICSs), which are composed of …

Industrial and critical infrastructure security: Technical analysis of real-life security incidents

GM Makrakis, C Kolias, G Kambourakis, C Rieger… - Ieee …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Critical infrastructures and industrial organizations aggressively move towards integrating
elements of modern Information Technology (IT) into their monolithic Operational …

A blockchain footprint for authentication of IoT-enabled smart devices in smart cities: state-of-the-art advancements, challenges and future research directions

U Khalil, OA Malik, S Hussain - IEEE Access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The mechanisms based on the distributed environment have become an obvious choice for
solutions, while they have not been limited only to a specific domain (ie, crypto-currency) …

Security of programmable logic controllers and related systems: today and tomorrow

W Alsabbagh, P Langendörfer - IEEE Open Journal of the …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Programmable logic controllers (PLCs) are indispensable in critical infrastructures and
industrial control systems. The increasing demand for enhanced cost-effectiveness and …

Empirical study of PLC authentication protocols in industrial control systems

A Ayub, H Yoo, I Ahmed - 2021 IEEE Security and Privacy …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Programmable logic controllers (PLCs) run a 'control logic'program that defines how to
control a physical process such as a nuclear plant, power grid stations, and gas pipelines …

Anomaly detection for a water treatment system based on one-class neural network

EA Boateng, JW Bruce, DA Talbert - IEEE access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The prevalence of Internet-of-Things (IoT) technologies and the ubiquity of networked
sensors and actuators in many Industrial Control Systems (ICS) have led to the exposure of …

PCaaD: Towards automated determination and exploitation of industrial systems

B Green, R Derbyshire, M Krotofil, W Knowles… - Computers & …, 2021 - Elsevier
Over the last decade, Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) have been increasingly
targeted by attackers to obtain control over industrial processes that support critical services …

[HTML][HTML] Walking under the ladder logic: PLC-VBS: a PLC control logic vulnerability scanning tool

S Maesschalck, A Staves, R Derbyshire, B Green… - Computers & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Cyber security risk assessments provide a crucial starting point towards the understanding
of existing risk exposure, via which suitable mitigation strategies can be formed. Risk is …

Gadgets of gadgets in industrial control systems: Return oriented programming attacks on PLCs

A Ayub, N Zubair, H Yoo, W Jo… - 2023 IEEE International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In industrial control systems (ICS), programmable logic controllers (PLCs) directly control
and monitor physical processes in real-time such as nuclear plants, and power grid stations …