Cyber-Physical Systems Security and Privacy

Abstract

The focus of this issue of IEEE Design&Test is on cyber-physical systems security and privacy. Research in cyber-physical systems (CPS) has enjoyed a large increase over the past years. The same holds for security and privacy. Hence, combining both in a special issue is very appealing. And indeed this is what our guest editors provided to us: this special issue covers a wide area of research- and industry-relevant articles, among others, on side channels, lightweight encryption for Internet of Things, CPS comodeling, and anomaly detection. In addition, the guest editors have written a survey on the topic which, more precisely, is a survey on surveys and may help the interested reader to find a way through the jungle of literature on the topic out there already. In order to ease the search, they have provided a classification in CPS domains, attacks, defenses, research trends, network security, security level implementation, and computational strategies. Because of the relevance of the security topic, we will have future special issues to continue covering the very same topic.