We develop methods to determine if networked control systems can be compromised by stealth attacks, and derive design strategies to secure these systems. A stealth attack is a form of a cyber-physical attack where the adversary compromises the information between the plant and the controller, with the intention to drive the system into a bad state and at the same time stay undetected. We define the discovery problem as a formal verification problem, where generated counterexamples (if any) correspond to actual attack vectors. The analysis is entirely performed in Simulink, using Simulink Design Verifier as the verification engine. A small case study is presented to illustrate the results, and a branch-and-bound algorithm is proposed to perform optimal system securing.
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