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A smart grid is a widely distributed engineering system with overhead transmission lines. Physical damage to these power lines, from natural calamities or technical failures, will disrupt the functional integrity of the grid. To ensure the continuation of the grid’s operational flow when those phenomena happen, the grid operator must immediately take steps to nullify the impacts and repair the problems, even if those occur in hardly-reachable remote areas.

Cyber-physical systems (CPSs) and the Internet of Things (IoT) are converging towards a hybrid platform that is becoming ubiquitous in all modern infrastructures. The massive deployment of  CPS requires comprehensive, secure, and reliable communication. The integration of complex and heterogeneous systems makes enormous space for the adversaries to get into the network and inject malicious data. To obfuscate and mislead the attackers, we propose DDAF, a deception defense-based data acquisition framework for a hierarchical communication network of CPSs.

Call for Student Posters on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Communications and Networking Research

 

Situational Awareness provides a user centric approach to security and privacy. The human factor is often recognised as the weakest link in security, therefore situational perception and risk awareness play a leading role in the adoption and implementation of security mechanisms. In this study we assess the understanding of security and privacy of users in possession of wearable devices. The findings demonstrate privacy complacency, as the majority of users trust the application and the wearable device manufacturer.

P. Tallapragada, J. Cortés Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Los Angeles, California, USA, 2014, to appear paper and matlab programs

C. Nowzari, J. Cortés Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Portland, Oregon, USA, 2014, pp. pp. 2148-2153

This paper describes a systematic approach for analyzing code reuse attacks and defenses. It was presented at RAID'13 Symposium and published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Volume 8145.