Dr Naghmeh Moradpoor Sheykhkanloo N.Moradpoor@napier.ac.uk
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Neutralising Adversarial Machine Learning in Industrial Control Systems Using Blockchain
Moradpoor, Naghmeh; Barati, Masoud; Robles-Durazno, Andres; Abah, Ezra; McWhinnie, James
Authors
Masoud Barati
Andres Robles-Durazno
Ezra Abah
James McWhinnie
Abstract
The protection of critical national infrastructures such as drinking water, gas, and electricity is extremely important as nations are dependent on their operation and steadiness. However, despite the value of such utilities their security issues have been poorly addressed which has resulted in a growing number of cyberattacks with increasing impact and huge consequences. There are many machine learning solutions to detect anomalies against this type of infrastructure given the popularity of such an approach in terms of accuracy and success in detecting zero-day attacks. However, machine learning algorithms are prone to adversarial attacks. In this paper, an energy-consumption-based machine learning approach is proposed to detect anomalies in a water treatment system and evaluate its robustness against adversarial attacks using a novel dataset. The evaluations include three popular machine learning algorithms and four categories of adversarial attack set to poison both training and testing data. The captured results show that although some machine learning algorithms are more robust against adversarial confrontations than others, overall, the proposed anomaly detection mechanism which is built on energy consumption metrics and its associated dataset are vulnerable to such attacks. To this end, a blockchain approach to protect the data during the training and testing phases of such machine learning models is proposed. The proposed smart contract is deployed in a public blockchain test network and their costs and mining time are investigated.
Citation
Moradpoor, N., Barati, M., Robles-Durazno, A., Abah, E., & McWhinnie, J. (2023). Neutralising Adversarial Machine Learning in Industrial Control Systems Using Blockchain. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Cybersecurity, Situational Awareness and Social Media (437-451). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-6414-5_24
Conference Name | Cyber Science 2022: International Conference on Cybersecurity, Situational Awareness and Social Media |
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Conference Location | Cardiff Metropolitan University, Wales |
Start Date | Jun 20, 2022 |
End Date | Jun 21, 2022 |
Acceptance Date | May 2, 2022 |
Online Publication Date | Mar 8, 2023 |
Publication Date | 2023 |
Deposit Date | May 5, 2022 |
Publicly Available Date | Mar 9, 2024 |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 437-451 |
Book Title | Proceedings of the International Conference on Cybersecurity, Situational Awareness and Social Media |
ISBN | 978-981-19-6413-8 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-6414-5_24 |
Keywords | Adversarial attacks, Machine learning, Critical national infrastructure, Industrial control systems, Water treatment systems, Blockchain |
Public URL | http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2869637 |
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