Physical data auditing for attack detection in cyber-manufacturing systems: Blockchain for machine learning process

Auditing physical data using machine learning can enhance the security in Cyber-Manufacturing System (CMS). However, the physical data processing itself is prone to cyber-attacks. Connections based on the internet in CMS opens the route for adversaries to compromise the attack detection system itself. To prevent data from malicious data injection in CMS, this paper proposes an enhanced Simple Convolutional Neural Network (SCNN) based attack detection system employing a blockchain. There are three contributions of this paper: (i) introducing a secure attack detection system using blockchain, (ii) optimizing the cost and time for CMS by training on the simulated images, and (iii) presenting a real-time attack detection system for CMS by simplifying the convolutional neural network. The paper demonstrates the effectiveness of the blockchain implementation by presenting the comparative performance analysis of the proposed attack detection system with and without blockchain implementation using an example of a simulated attack on the machine learning process.