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AWARE-RG: Abstraction Aware Explanation of Resiliency Graphs for Cyber Physical Systems
Oct 14, 2026Shadaab Kawnain Bashir, Rakesh Podder, Philip D. Hopkins +3CPS Security Cybersecurity
Computer Science Department, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
Game-Theoretic Reinforcement Learning based Topology-Agnostic Defense for Virtual Power Plants
Oct 10, 2026Pooja Algikar, Stefano Fenu, Kumarsinh Jhala +1Game-Theoretic RL Cybersecurity
the energy systems and infrastructure assessment division at Argonne National Laboratory
LogiC-Diff: Embedding Security Properties Into AI-Enabled Cyber-Physical Systems
Sep 29, 2026Ziyan An, John Stankovic, Meiyi MaCyber-Physical Systems Time Series Forecasting
Department of Computer Science Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN · Department of Computer Science University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA
Physics-Aware Machine Unlearning for Cyber-Physical Systems
Sep 29, 2026Mohammad Zakaria Haider, Muhammad Nadeem, Mohammad Ashiqur RahmanMachine Unlearning CPS Security
Analytics for Cyber Defense (ACyD) Lab, Florida International University, USA
XPhysICS: Cross-Physical-Domain Threat Grounding for Industrial Control Systems Security
Sep 25, 2026Sangshin Park, Jainta Paul, Lawrence Ponce +3Cyber-Physical Systems Cyber Threat Intelligence
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA · Kahlert School of Computing, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
RobResilience: Implementing and Evaluating a Resilience Framework for Cyber-Physical Embodied Systems
Sep 15, 2026Gysella Imrell, Emanuele Miotto, Mahya Mohammadi Kashani +2Cyber-Physical Systems Autonomous Cyber Defense
Örebro University Örebro, Sweden · University of Padua Padua, Italy
Robust Industrial Cyber Physical Classification Using Neuromorphic Temporal Embeddings and Hybrid SNN XGBoost Under Machine Unlearning Attacks
Sep 9, 2026Ammar Kamoona, Sajad Koushkbaghi, Mahdi Jalili +2Cyber-Physical Systems Network Intrusion Detection
Powercor, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
PLCBench: Can Autonomous LLM Agents Turn PLC Access into Sustained Physical Impact?
Aug 27, 2026Yitian Zhou, Jingyu Zheng, Qiliang Jiang +6Industrial Control System Security Cybersecurity
Zhejiang University · Xi’an Jiaotong University · University of Bristol
Digital Twin Degradation: Detecting Cyber Physical Attacks via Temporal Inconsistencies
Aug 17, 2026Konstantinos E. Kampourakis, Vasileios Gkioulos, Sokratis KatsikasCPS Security Cybersecurity
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), 2802 Gjøvik, Norway
Modeling Normal Is All You Need: Joint Latent Clustering for Anomaly Detection in Multimodal Cyber-Physical Systems
Jul 7, 2026Alexander Apartsin, Yehudit ApersteinMultimodal Anomaly Detection Industrial Anomaly Detection
Holon Institute of Technology (HIT), Holon, Israel · Afeka Academic College of Engineering, Tel Aviv, Israel
Model-Free Reinforcement Learning Control for Resilient Cyber-Physical Systems
Jun 17, 2026Hugo O. Garcés, Alejandro J. Rojas, Bernardo A. Hernández +5RL Control Cyber-Physical Systems
Departamento de Ingeniería Informática y Ciencias de la Computación, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile · Electrical Engineering Departament, Universidad de Talca · Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, T6G 1H9, Alberta, AB, Canada +2
AI Sandboxes: A Threat Model, Taxonomy, and Measurement Framework
Jun 16, 2026Inderjeet Singh, Haitham Mahmoud, Andrés MurilloCyber-Physical Systems AI Assurance
Fujitsu Research of Europe, United Kingdom
Graph neural networks at war: integrating cybersecurity and drone intelligence in the Israeli-Iranian conflict
Jun 15, 2026Sozan Sulaiman Maghdid, Tarik Ahmed Rashid, Shavan AskarCyber-Physical Systems Autonomous Cyber Defense
Department of Information Technology, Khabat Technical Institute; Erbil Polytechnic University, Erbil, Iraq · Computer Science and Engineering Department; AIIC, University of Kurdistan Hewler, Erbil, Iraq · Department of Information Systems Engineering, Technical College of Computer and Informatics Engineering, Erbil Polytechnic University, Erbil, Iraq
A Formal Resilience Framework for Cyber-Physical Embodied Systems under Device-Level Cyberattacks
Jun 15, 2026Alberto GiarettaCyber-Physical Systems Cybersecurity
Department of Computer Science, Örebro University, Sweden · AI, Robotics and Cybersecurity Center (ARC), Örebro University, Sweden
AI-Native Closed-Loop Security for 6G-Enabled Cyber-Physical Systems: From Edge Detection to Network-Wide Mitigation
Jun 6, 2026Bilal Hussain, Muhammad Bilal, Tan Li +6Cyber-Physical Systems 6G Networks
Division of Science, Engineering, and Health Studies, School of Professional Education and Executive Development, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, China · School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University, United Kingdom · Department of Computer Science, The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China +4
Attack Detection using Time Series Foundation Models
Jun 4, 2026Sribalaji C. Anand, Anh Tung Nguyen, George J. PappasCyber-Physical Systems Cybersecurity
University of Pennsylvania, United States · Uppsala University, Sweden
Backdoor Attacks on Fault Detection and Localization in Cyber-Physical Systems
May 26, 2026Abile Jean, Kuniyilh SCyber-Physical Systems Backdoor Attacks
When Agents Control Robots: A Zero Trust Policy Model for Agentic Cyber-Physical Systems
May 25, 2026Tharindu Ranathunga, Kavishka Fernando, Susan ReaRobotic Control Cyber-Physical Systems
Nimbus Centre, Munster Technological University, Cork, Ireland
Quantum Machine Learning for Cyber-Physical Anomaly Detection in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: A Leakage-Free Evaluation with Proxy-Audited Feature Sets
May 19, 2026Carlos A. Durán Paredes, Javier E. León Calderón, Nicolás Sánchez Perea +2Cybersecurity Quantum Machine Learning
Corporation for Aerospace Initiatives, Research and Innovation (CASIRI), Popayán, Colombia · Department of Electronics Engineering, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Manizales, Colombia. · Department of Electronics Engineering, Universidad del Cauca, Popayán, Colombia. +1
Quantifying Cyber-Vulnerability in Power Electronics Systems via an Impedance-Based Attack Reachable Domain
May 14, 2026Hongwei Zhen, Ze Yu, Xin Xiang +2Cyber-Physical Systems Reachability Analysis
SMSI: System Model Security Inference: Automated Threat Modeling for Cyber-Physical Systems
Apr 26, 2026RoÝah Radaideh, Ali KhreisCyber-Physical Systems Cybersecurity
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Active Bayesian Inference for Robust Control under Sensor False Data Injection Attacks
Apr 13, 2026Axel Andersson, György DánCPS Security Cyber-Physical Systems
Department of Network and Systems Engineering, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
From Incomplete Architecture to Quantified Risk: Multimodal LLM-Driven Security Assessment for Cyber-Physical Systems
Apr 7, 2026Shaofei Huang, Christopher M. Poskitt, Lwin Khin SharCybersecurity CPS Security
Singapore Management University, Singapore
Fundamental Limits of Man-in-the-Middle Attack Detection in Model-Free Reinforcement Learning
Mar 29, 2026Rishi Rani, Massimo FranceschettiCPS Security Adversarial Attacks
Cyber-Resilient Digital Twins: Discriminating Attacks for Safe Critical Infrastructure Control
Mar 19, 2026Mohammadhossein Homaei, Iman Khazrak, Rubén Molano +2CPS Security Industrial Control System Security
Departamento de Ingeniería de Sistemas Informáticos y Telemáticos, Universidad de Extremadura, Av. Universidad S/N, Escuela Politécnica, Cáceres, 10003, Extremadura, Spain · Department of Computer Science, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, 43403, OH, USA

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AWARE-RG: Abstraction Aware Explanation of Resiliency Graphs for Cyber Physical Systems

Shadaab Kawnain Bashir, Rakesh Podder, Philip D. Hopkins, Sarath Sreedharan+2

Computer Science Department, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA

CPS Security Cybersecurity Industrial Control System Security Cyber-Physical Systems Reachability Analysis

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Understanding the security posture of cyber physical systems (CPS) requires reasoning across both information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT). However, a security analyst often holds an incomplete, role-specific view of the underlying system which has most likely resulted from their knowledge limited by a need-to-know framework. Such an incomplete view can potentially lead them to incorrectly assess if a cyber attack produces an untoward physical consequence resulting in making uninformed decisions about system resilience. In this work, we present AWARE-RG (Abstraction Aware Explanation of Resiliency Graphs), a semi-automated, human-in-the-loop framework that provides an analyst with a role-bounded, need-to-know explanations of resiliency paths in a CPS. The AWARE-RG abstraction structure is derived using Formal Concept Analysis over MITRE ATT&CK for ICS tactics, ordered by the ICS Cyber Kill Chain. For valid attack-fault queries, plan repair and backward means-end analysis identify the missing dependencies, explain why the physical hazard is reachable, and suggest defensive strategies. For invalid attack-fault queries, AWARE-RG localizes the first abstraction level at which the path fails, and reports confirmed blocking conditions as hardening pointers.