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Welcome to the Cyber-Physical Assets Interdisciplinary Group (CPAIG)!
This creation of the group and building a community on cyber-physical assets are supported by the RITICS (Research Institute in Trustworthy Inter-connected Cyber-Physical Systems) via NCSC, UK. This group aims to promote research, interaction with community members, and interdisciplinary collaborative work with industry and academic partners on related topics.
Asset discovery in IT and network systems is carried out with substantial tools to provide more accurate and specific information about digital assets. However, with the emergence of cyber-physical systems (CPSs), traditional techniques are not practically useful in providing answers to the key questions about the cyber and physical assets present in the systems. Examples of such systems are electric vehicles (EVs) infrastructure, autonomous vehicles (AVs)/connected AVs (CAVs), unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), smart grids, smart manufacturing and so on. Asset discovery in operational technology (OT) and understanding the criticality of its assets are not yet explored enough. These assets could be specific devices such as PLCs, HMI, RTUs, etc., or IoT and Industrial IoT devices, including sensors, actuators, and other related components. Security of such critical assets is crucial in strengthening the security of the CPSs. Similarly, such assets have privacy concerns and issues considering big data collection and processing at different devices (edge/ cloud/fog). Most importantly, improving and ensuring the resilience of such assets by understanding the impact of cyber-attacks on physical assets will greatly enhance the systems’ cyber resilience.
The accelerating adoption of new technologies brings challenges primarily associated with the cyber security and safety of the applications, where confidentiality, integrity, and data availability are crucial. Further, AI techniques can be embraced to improve state-of-the-art understanding of asset criticality and safeguard solutions against cyber attempts on the physical and digital assets of CPSs. This group aims to explore and develop new research ideas from the wider CPS context focusing on the security, privacy and resilience of critical assets.
If you work on any of the topics mentioned below and would like to get involved here, please drop an email to Dr Neetesh Saxena (saxenan4@cardiff.ac.uk)
Topics of Interest:
Cyber-physical assets in critical national infrastructure
Critical Asset Identification in cyber-physical systems
Operational cyber risks in cyber-physical systems
Silent/hidden assets and their security in cyber-physical systems
Security, privacy and resilience analysis on IoT/IIoT/IoE assets Risk management and governance for critical asset applications
Security, privacy and resilience of physical assets in cyber-physical systems
AI-assisted critical infrastructure security for critical assets
Detection, prevention, response, and recovery against potential threats to critical assets
Automated threat modelling for critical assets
Situational awareness and traceability for critical assets
Applied crypto for securing critical assets
Blockchain for trustworthy critical asset applications
Privacy-preserving techniques for critical assets
Cyber threat intelligence for critical assets
Device specific asset criticality (e.g., RTUs, PLCs, etc.)
Cyber-attacks impact on critical assets
Current Members:
Dr Neetesh Saxena, Cardiff University, UK.
Dr Sridhar Adepu, Swansea University, UK.
Dr Prosanta Gope, University of Sheffield, UK.
Dr Subhash Lakshminarayana, University of Warwick, UK.
Dr Deepak Kumar Panda, Cranfield University, UK.
Dr Manimuthu Arunmozhi, Aston University, Birmingham, UK.
Dr Dimitrios Pezaros, University of Glasgow, UK.
Dr Ayodeji Rotibi, UK.
Dr Vijay Kumar, CIH, UK.
Dr Anish Jindal, Durham University, UK.
Dr Siraj Shaikh, Swansea University, UK.
Mr Saket Mohan, Secure Elements, UK.
Dr Fei Teng, Imperial College London, UK.
Dr Omprakash Kaiwartya, Nottingham Trent University, UK.
Dr Lewis Hunter, University of Strathclyde, UK.
Dr Peter Lee, University of Portsmouth, UK.
Dr Andews Morris, Loughborough University, UK.
Dr Anthony Pipe, UWE Bristol, UK.
Dr Amir Javed, Cardiff University, UK.
Dr Chuadhry Mujeeb Ahmed, Newcastle University, UK.
Dr Anurag Srivastava, West Virginia University, USA.
Dr Alvaro Cardenas, UCSC, USA.
Dr Rigel Gjomemo, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA.
Dr Z. Berkay Celik, Purdue University, USA.
Dr Daisuke Mashima, SUTD, Singapore.
Dr B. K. Panigrahi, IIT Delhi, India.
Dr Vireshwar Kumar, IIT Delhi, India.
Dr Mayank Swarnkar, IIT BHU, India.
Dr Tanmoy Kanti Das, NIT Raipur, India.
Dr Mohsen Toorani, University of South-Eastern Norway, Campus Kongsberg, Norway.
Mr Pietro Tedeschi, CY4GATE S.p.A, Rome, Italy.
Dr Charalambos (Harrys) Konstantinou, KAUST, Saudi Arabia.
Student members:
Carol Lo, University of the West of England, UK.
Mohammed Asiri, Cardiff University, UK.
Yazeed Alrowaili, Cardiff University, UK.
Fatih Kurt, Cardiff University, UK.
Past events:
IEEE CSR Workshop on Security, Privacy and Resilience of Critical Assets in Critical Infrastructure (SPARC), Hilton London Tower Bridge, London (UK), 2-4 September 2024.
UK-India Workshop on Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure, Security, and Data Analytics, 2024.
Special Issue: Artificial Intelligence and Industrial Cyber-Physical Security in IET Cyber-Physical Systems: Theory & Applications, 2024.
Special Issue: Developments in IoT and Smart Power Grids, MDPI, 2025.
UKIERI Workshop on Socio-Technical Research Capabilities for Autonomous Electric Vehicles' Critical Safety, Security and Adoption, 2024.
RITICS workshop, 2025.
Upcoming events:
IEEE CSR Workshop on Security, Privacy and Resilience of Critical Assets in Critical Infrastructure (SPARC), Crete, Greece, 4-6 August 2025.
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