Introduction to the Book

In this introductory chapter, we illustrate the book’s motivation and objective. In particular, the book takes its raison d’être from the need for protecting Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSsCyber-Physical Systems (CPS)) against threats originating either in the cyber or in the physical domain. Exploring the concepts of safetySafety, securitySecurity, and privacyPrivacy for CPSsCyber-Physical Systems (CPS) thus emerged as the natural goal to reach. In order to better support this objective and to help the reader to navigate the book contents, a taxonomy of the above-mentioned concepts is introduced, based on a set of three triads, including the well-known Confidentiality, Integrity, and AvailabilityAvailabilityIntegrityConfidentiality triad which was introduced in the Information Technology securitySecurity literature.