The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

“Cyber-physical systems” are the next generation of closely integrated physical and cyber systems. Several critical systems such as the power grid, autonomous transportation systems, and process ...

Cyber-physical systems consist of computers that sense and control a rapidly changing physical environment. Examples of such systems include autonomous transportation (self-driving cars), traffic ...

Cyber-physical systems are closely tied to the IoT and will increasingly use AI in every imaginable use case to operate more autonomously. What is a cyber-physical system and how do we define it? What ...

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Cyber-physical systems and the Internet of Things—physical objects embedded with sensors, processing ability, software, and other technologies that exchange data with other devices and systems—connect ...

Many of the attacks that are in the news are focused on obtaining “personal identifiable information” such as credit card numbers, bank accounts, and social security numbers. But there is a whole ...

The darkness that swept over the Venezuelan capital in the predawn hours of Jan. 3, 2026, signaled a profound shift in the ...

This article is the first of a multi-part series on how plant owners and operators can cyberharden their physical generation assets. Our key point is that the same competencies that the industry has ...