Annotation: Security criteria for self-organizing cyber-physical systems are proposed, taking into account their specificity, which consists in the need to ensure correct functioning, even under conditions of destructive information impacts, and information security. The solution of the problem is complicated by the presence of both local goals of the system components capable of self-organization and the global goal of the entire system. The paper systematizes security threats for self-organizing cyber-physical systems taking into account their specifics. We propose three security criteria – graph and two entropy criteria, the combined use of which will allow us to detect attacking influences aimed at both disabling the system and obtaining the possibility of stealthy control of the system in accordance with the attacker's goals.

Keywords: cybersecurity, self-organizing systems, multi-agent system, intelligence, entropy, target function