Alvaro A. Cardenas is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Before joining UCSC he was the Eugene McDermott Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Dallas, a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, and a research staff member at Fujitsu ...

He is completing his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at the University of Los Andes in Bogota, Colombia under the supervision of Nicanor Quijano and co-supervision of Alvaro Cardenas. His research interests lie on extending fault-detection and fault-identification algorithms in Control Theory to deal with adversarial faults, rather than random ...

The protection of cyber-physical critical infrastructures against computer attacks is a matter of national security, public safety, and economic stability; however, most of our critical assets are owned and operated by private companies with pressing operational requirements, tight security budgets, and aversion to regulatory oversight.

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The Stuxnet attack was a wake-up call to improve the security of our critical infrastructures, which include transportation networks, the power grid, and other cyber-physical systems, where computation, communications, and control are tightly integrated.

David I. Urbina1, Jairo Giraldo1, Alvaro A. Cardenas1, Nils Ole Tippenhauer2, Junia Valente 1 , Mustafa Faisal 1 , Justin Ruths 1 , Richard Candell 3 , and Henrik Sandberg 4 1 University of Texas at Dallas, 2 Singapore University of Technology and Design,

Junia Valente, Alvaro A. Cárdenas Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science The University of Texas at Dallas Richardson, TX {juniavalente, alvaro.cardenas}@utdallas.edu ABSTRACT Weproposeanewwaytoverifytheintegrityandfreshnessof footage from security cameras by sending visual challenges totheareabeingmonitoredbythecamera ...

Luis E. Salazar and Alvaro A. Cardenas. 2019. Enhancing the Resiliency of Cyber-Physical Systems with Software-Defined Networks. InACM Work-shop on Cyber-Physical Systems Security & Privacy (CPS-SPC’19), November 11, 2019, London, United Kingdom. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 12 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3338499.3357356 1 INTRODUCTION

Jairo Giraldo, Member, IEEE, Alvaro Cárdenas, Member, IEEE, and Nicanor Quijano, Senior Member, IEEE Abstract—Recent work has studied the impact caused by attackers that compromise pricing signals used in the emerg-ing retail electricity market and send false prices to a subset of consumers. In this paper, we extend previous work by consider-

Alvaro A. Cardenas Computer Science and Engineering University of California, Santa Cruz Abstract—In the past decade we have seen an active research community proposing attacks and defenses to Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). Most of these attacks and defenses have been heuristic in nature, limiting the attacker to a set of predefined