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Manimaran Govindarasu - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Development of the PowerCyber SCADA security testbed
Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Workshop on Cyber Security and Information Intelligence Research - CSIIRW '10, 2010Co-Authors: Adam Hahn, Ben Kregel, Justin Fitzpatrick, Rafi Adnan, Manimaran Govindarasu, Siddharth Sridhar, Michael HigdonAbstract:Meeting current demands for critical Infrastructure Cyber se- curity education and research will require accurate testbed development. The PowerCyber was designed to closely re- semble power grid communication utilizing actual field de- vices and SCADA software. The testbed provides a novel en- vironment where students can explore Cyber attacks and de- fenses while evaluating their impact on power flow. This pa- per documents the design and implementation of the testbed while proposing Cyber attack scenarios which will negatively affect grid operations. In addition, it documents the results of an initial Cyber vulnerability assessment to evaluate the security posture of the current design.
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CSIIRW - Development of the PowerCyber SCADA security testbed
Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Workshop on Cyber Security and Information Intelligence Research - CSIIRW '10, 2010Co-Authors: Adam Hahn, Ben Kregel, Justin Fitzpatrick, Rafi Adnan, Manimaran Govindarasu, Siddharth Sridhar, Michael HigdonAbstract:Meeting current demands for critical Infrastructure Cyber security education and research will require accurate testbed development. The PowerCyber was designed to closely resemble power grid communication utilizing actual field devices and SCADA software. The testbed provides a novel environment where students can explore Cyber attacks and defenses while evaluating their impact on power flow. This paper documents the design and implementation of the testbed while proposing Cyber attack scenarios which will negatively affect grid operations. In addition, it documents the results of an initial Cyber vulnerability assessment to evaluate the security posture of the current design.
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SMC - Anomaly extraction and correlations for power Infrastructure Cyber systems
2008 IEEE International Conference on Systems Man and Cybernetics, 2008Co-Authors: Chee-wooi Ten, Chen-ching Liu, Manimaran GovindarasuAbstract:There has not been an organized way to efficiently correlate anomaly behaviors in critical Infrastructures as information about malicious activities are not gathered from geographically dispersed Cyber systems. This paper establishes a systematic approach to identify properties that can be extracted to detect malicious activities in the Cyber-based control systems. The malicious detection can be implemented through an on-line anomaly inference system in order to improve situational awareness. In this preliminary investigation, a methodology to infer anomaly is proposed for power systems, representing the anomalous Cyber- or power-related events among substation networks.
Milos Manic - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Review of Design Elements within Power Infrastructure Cyber–Physical Test Beds as Threat Analysis Environments
Energies, 2021Co-Authors: Bjorn Vaagensmith, Vivek Kumar Singh, Robert Ivans, Daniel L. Marino, Chathurika S. Wickramasinghe, Jacob Lehmer, Tyler Phillips, Craig Rieger, Milos ManicAbstract:Cyber–physical systems (CPSs) are an integral part of modern society; thus, enhancing these systems’ reliability and resilience is paramount. Cyber–physical testbeds (CPTs) are a safe way to test and explore the interplay between the Cyber and physical domains and to cost-effectively enhance the reliability and resilience of CPSs. Here a review of CPT elements, broken down into physical components (simulators, emulators, and physical hardware), soft components (communication protocols, network timing protocols), and user interfaces (visualization-dashboard design considerations) is presented. Various methods used to validate CPS performance are reviewed and evaluated for potential applications in CPT performance validation. Last, initial simulated results for a CPT design, based on the IEEE 33 bus system, are presented, along with a brief discussion on how model-based testing and fault–injection-based testing (using scaling and ramp-type attacks) may be used to help validate CPT performance.
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On Critical Infrastructures, Their Security and Resilience - Trends and Vision.
arXiv: Cryptography and Security, 2018Co-Authors: Craig Rieger, Milos ManicAbstract:This short paper is presented in observance and promotion of November, the National Month of Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience (CISR), established by the United States Department of Homeland Security in 2013. The CISR term focuses on essential assets (critical Infrastructures) and two ultimate goals of making them secure and resilient. These assets and goals were put together in 2013 in the now well-known Presidential Policy Directive on CISR (PPD-21). This paper presents easy-to-ready material laying down the building blocks of CISR - what it means to you as a regular citizen, professional, or government worker. This paper presents concepts behind security and resilience pertinent to various types of activities - from every day to field-specific activities. This paper also presents basic elements to the field: 1. high-level introduction to the organizational units dealing with CISR in the United States; 2. explanation of basic terms and a list of further reading material; and 3. several discussion topics on the vision and future of CISR in critical Infrastructure Cyber-physical systems.
Sean Warnick - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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ACC - A case study of a systematic attack design method for critical Infrastructure Cyber-physical systems
2016 American Control Conference (ACC), 2016Co-Authors: David Grimsman, Vasu Chetty, Nathan Woodbury, Elham Vaziripour, Sandip Roy, Daniel Zappala, Sean WarnickAbstract:As Cyber-physical systems continue to become more prevalent in critical Infrastructures, security of these systems becomes paramount. Unlike purely Cyber systems, Cyber-physical systems allow Cyber attackers to induce physical consequences. The purpose of this paper is to design a general attack methodology for Cyber-physical systems and illustrate it using a case study of the Sevier River System in Central Utah (United States). By understanding such attacks, future work can then focus on designing systems that are robust against them.
Alefiya Hussain - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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ACC - Resilience, a key property of Infrastructure CPS
2016 American Control Conference (ACC), 2016Co-Authors: Alefiya HussainAbstract:The information network plays a crucial role in the stability of Infrastructure CPS. The adoption of measurements and networked control technologies provide timely measurements that can be used to design control strategies for the stability of the energy network during a failure or a fault. However, these technologies have also significantly increased the exposure to novel security threats and risks. This tutorial will present case studies for methodological security and resiliency assessment for Infrastructure Cyber-physical systems on the DETER networking and Cyber security testbed.
Bjorn Vaagensmith - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Review of Design Elements within Power Infrastructure Cyber–Physical Test Beds as Threat Analysis Environments
Energies, 2021Co-Authors: Bjorn Vaagensmith, Vivek Kumar Singh, Robert Ivans, Daniel L. Marino, Chathurika S. Wickramasinghe, Jacob Lehmer, Tyler Phillips, Craig Rieger, Milos ManicAbstract:Cyber–physical systems (CPSs) are an integral part of modern society; thus, enhancing these systems’ reliability and resilience is paramount. Cyber–physical testbeds (CPTs) are a safe way to test and explore the interplay between the Cyber and physical domains and to cost-effectively enhance the reliability and resilience of CPSs. Here a review of CPT elements, broken down into physical components (simulators, emulators, and physical hardware), soft components (communication protocols, network timing protocols), and user interfaces (visualization-dashboard design considerations) is presented. Various methods used to validate CPS performance are reviewed and evaluated for potential applications in CPT performance validation. Last, initial simulated results for a CPT design, based on the IEEE 33 bus system, are presented, along with a brief discussion on how model-based testing and fault–injection-based testing (using scaling and ramp-type attacks) may be used to help validate CPT performance.