Critical Infrastructure | Nils Ole Tippenhauer

ASPIRE: Advancing Security of Public Infrastructure using Resilience and Economics

Thu, 01 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Funding: National Research Foundation, Singapore
Lead institution: Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)
My affiliation: Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)
Duration: 01/2015-07/2018
Role: Co-PI

ASPIRE studied the security and resilience of public infrastructure, in particular water treatment, water distribution and electric power. The project combined real-world testbeds with formal attacker models and simulation of cyber-physical attacks on water distribution networks. It also organised community activities such as a competition on attack detection algorithms and gamified ICS security exercises.

CYPRO: Cyber-Physical Protection

Wed, 01 Oct 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Funding: Ministry of Defence, Singapore
Lead institution: Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)
My affiliation: Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)
Duration: 10/2014-09/2016
Role: Co-PI (own work packages and staff)

CYPRO addressed the protection of critical infrastructure against cyber-physical attacks. The project studied attacks on industrial control systems and their effects on the physical process, as well as countermeasures such as process-aware attack detection. Experimental work used the SWaT water treatment testbed at SUTD and tools for simulating industrial networks. Results include open-source tools and datasets that are widely used in ICS security research.