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Interoperable Cyber Physical Systems for Smart Infrastructure: A Resilience First Security Framework

International Journal of Computer Science and Engineering
© 2026 by SSRG - IJCSE Journal
Volume 13 Issue 1
Year of Publication : 2026
Authors : Abdinasir Ismael Hashi
10.14445/23488387/IJCSE-V13I1P103

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Abdinasir Ismael Hashi, "Interoperable Cyber Physical Systems for Smart Infrastructure: A Resilience First Security Framework," SSRG International Journal of Computer Science and Engineering , vol. 13,  no. 1, pp. 16-29, 2026. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.14445/23488387/IJCSE-V13I1P103

Abstract:

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are the foundation of current smart infrastructure, but the growing interoperability of heterogeneous CPS elements makes them highly susceptible to cascading cyber-physical attacks. To overcome this issue, the paper presents a resilience-first security framework that combines data quality improvement, interoperability-conscious dependency modeling, and system-level risk and resilience analysis. The suggested method is tested using the SWaT industrial water treatment dataset, a collection of multivariate time-series data sampled at 1 Hz. CPS subsystems are decomposed and represented in the form of dependency graphs, and anomaly detection is performed through multivariate feature engineering. A CPS-aware data repair mechanism is used to cope with severe data incompleteness. Experimental findings indicate that the proposed repair method reduces approximately 7 × 10⁶ missing values to nearly zero, achieving almost 100% data completeness. Dependency-based risk analysis demonstrates that during an attack, system risk increases to the range of 0.85–0.95 for more than 30,000 samples. Chemical Dosing (≈0.75) and Distribution (≈0.65) are major contributors to risk propagation in subsystem analysis. Resilience evaluation shows rapid detection (1–2 samples), recovery within approximately 25 samples, and a composite resilience index of 0.03, validating the effectiveness of the proposed framework in enhancing CPS robustness and recovery.

Keywords:

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), Resilience-First Security, Interoperability and Cascading Dependencies, Anomaly Detection and Risk Propagation, Smart Infrastructure Security.

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