Cyber-Security Incidents: A Review Cases in Cyber-Physical Systems

Cyber-Physical Systems refer to systems that have an interaction between computers, communication channels and physical devices to solve a real-world problem. Towards industry 4.0 revolution, Cyber-Physical Systems currently become one of the main targets of hackers and any damage to them lead to high losses to a nation. According to valid resources, several cases reported involved security breaches on Cyber-Physical Systems. Understanding fundamental and theoretical concept of security in the digital world was discussed worldwide. Yet, security cases in regard to the cyber-physical system are still remaining less explored. In addition, limited tools were introduced to overcome security problems in Cyber-Physical System. To improve understanding and introduce a lot more security solutions for the cyber-physical system, the study on this matter is highly on demand. In this paper, we investigate the current threats on Cyber-Physical Systems and propose a classification and matrix for these threats, and conduct a simple statistical analysis of the collected data using a quantitative approach. We confirmed four components i.e., (the type of attack, impact, intention and incident categories) main contributor to threat taxonomy of Cyber-Physical Systems.

@article{Al-Mhiqani2018,
  title     = {Cyber-Security Incidents: A Review Cases in Cyber-Physical Systems},
  journal   = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
  volume    = {9},
  number    = {1},
  year      = {2018},
  publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
  author    = {Mohammed Nasser Al-Mhiqani and Rabiah Ahmad and Warusia Yassin and Aslinda Hassan and Zaheera Zainal Abidin and Nabeel Salih Ali and Karrar Hameed Abdulkareem},
  doi       = {10.14569/IJACSA.2018.090169},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2018.090169}
}