Cyber-Physical Systems Security: a Systematic Mapping Study
This provides a structured overview for researchers and practitioners in industry and academia, but it is incremental as it synthesizes existing work rather than introducing new methods.
The study tackled the problem of security in cyber-physical systems by conducting a systematic mapping of 118 selected studies, resulting in a comparison framework that analyzes application fields, components, algorithms, attacks, and defenses.
Cyber-physical systems are integrations of computation, networking, and physical processes. Due to the tight cyber-physical coupling and to the potentially disrupting consequences of failures, security here is one of the primary concerns. Our systematic mapping study sheds some light on how security is actually addressed when dealing with cyber-physical systems. The provided systematic map of 118 selected studies is based on, for instance, application fields, various system components, related algorithms and models, attacks characteristics and defense strategies. It presents a powerful comparison framework for existing and future research on this hot topic, important for both industry and academia.