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- Ideas --- ## What are we doing: Remember when Lance was talking
about his monitor that would read a control system to see if a
cyber-attack was taking place? This is in that vein. The idea
that I'm thinking of is that to tell if a control system is
compromised, we should be able to look at the dynamics of the
system to know if an attack is happening. A couple thoughts:
1. Sensor integrity: If we have a monitor that is an observer,
this monitor should be able to know when the plant is diverging
from what it would expect based on sensor values and it's model
of the plant. When the error signal has a higher magnitude than
expected, this is a sure fire sign that something might be wrong.
1. This is sensitive to maintenance problems however.
2. Monitor must be using data diodes and not connected to any
outside sources.
2. A secondary, redundant control system: Assuming the
perpetrator is tampering with signals, activate a secondary
control system that a) latches the first system out of its
control authority, and b) operates a safety shutdown mode. This
controller doesn't need to be super fancy - it just needs to
prevent damage. ## Why are we doing this: This seems like a fun
way to integrate control system math with cybersecurity. This is
somewhat a more CIE topic, but actually does address some
cybersecurity issues. This could also be implemented using KOs
and the protected domains. ## Other details: