Privacy and Security in Network Controlled Systems via Dynamic Masking

TL;DR

This paper introduces a novel architecture that enhances privacy and security in networked control systems by disrupting adversaries' system identification and attack detection capabilities, demonstrated through numerical simulations.

Contribution

The paper presents a new architecture that simultaneously provides privacy and security in networked control systems against sophisticated adversaries.

Findings

Significant bias introduced in adversary's system estimates

Effective detection of zero-dynamics attacks

Numerical simulations validate the architecture's efficacy

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a new architecture to enhance the privacy and security of networked control systems against malicious adversaries. We consider an adversary which first learns the system dynamics (privacy) using system identification techniques, and then performs a data injection attack (security). In particular, we consider an adversary conducting zero-dynamics attacks (ZDA) which maximizes the performance cost of the system whilst staying undetected. However, using the proposed architecture, we show that it is possible to (i) introduce significant bias in the system estimates of the adversary: thus providing privacy of the system parameters, and (ii) efficiently detect attacks when the adversary performs a ZDA using the identified system: thus providing security. Through numerical simulations, we illustrate the efficacy of the proposed architecture.