Cascading effects of cyber-attacks on interconnected critical infrastructure

Abstract Modern critical infrastructure, such as a water treatment plant, distribution system, and power grid, are representative of Cyber Physical Systems (CPSs) in which the physical processes monitored controlled real time. One source complexity systems is due to intra-system interactions inter-dependencies. Consequently, these potential target for attackers. When one or more infrastructure attacked, connected may also be affected cascading effects. In this paper, we report study investigate effects cyber-attacks on two interdependent namely, Secure plant (SWaT) Water Distribution System (WADI).