However, this need is often not addressed in current practice because of the major challenges that are 
posed by the heterogeneous and distributed nature of the systems and their interaction with the 
physical world and with the human users. As a consequence, there has been a dramatic increase in the 
number of attacks, e.g., influencing physical processes to bring the system into an undesired state. 
System failure can be extremely costly and threaten not only the system's environment but also 
human life.
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