Leveraging Data Fitting and Trust Assessment to Improve the Security of Industrial Networks

Industrial network control systems (INCSs) are easy to be targeted by attackers due to their high economic value. Most of the existing defense methods are deployed at the network boundary, which causes high-security risks to INCS once an attacker enters the system. In addition, many existing intrusion detection systems (IDSs) build detection models based on historical data. When INCS lacks sufficient historical data, it is difficult to build detection models with high accuracy. In this paper, we propose a trust assessment model for INCS based on Fourier series fitting employing concept of zero trust to assess the real-time trust of INCS. The model alerts when INCS has low trust. We test two data injection attacks in the experiment to prove the effectiveness of our approach.