Cyber-physical Attacks: the Role of Network Parameters
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چکیده
The fact that modern Networked Industrial Control Systems (NICS) depend on Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) is well known. Although many studies have focused on the security of NICS, today we still lack a proper understanding of the impact that network parameters, e.g. network delays, packet losses, background traffic, and network design decisions, have on cyber attacks targeting NICS. In this paper we investigate the impact of network parameters on cyber attacks targeting industrial processes. Our analysis is based on the Tennessee-Eastman chemical process and proves that network parameters have a limited effect on remote cyber attacks.
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