"New Control Architecture Defends Complex Interconnected Systems Against Cyber Attacks"
Details about a novel control architecture that defends complex, interconnected systems from cyberattacks have been published in the IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica. Researchers from Italy and Canada developed a method to mitigate damaging cyberattacks facing Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) such as power plants, autonomous vehicles, and more. Their Leader-Follower approach uses a part of the network to manage communications with the rest of the network. The researchers were able to design an algorithm to detect Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks on a network by assigning different roles to separate parts of a CPS. Once a DoS attack is detected, the algorithm cuts off the infected portion of the network to avoid large-scale degradation while adapting to the altered network structure. This article continues to discuss the novel control paradigm developed by researchers to defend CPS against damaging cyberattacks.