Explanation of Demonstration: (1) Demonstration of a realistic CPS Security Testbed for the power grid and its use-cases for research experimentation, education, and industry cybersecurity training. (2) Demonstration of real cyber attack-defense scenarios, such as Ukraine 2015 and 2016 attacks and suitable mitigations. (3) Demonstration of advanced wide-area protection and control applications, such as oscillation monitoring and control, automatic generation control, and remedial action schemes.

The increasing set of functionalities, network interoperability, and system design complexity have introduced security vulnerabilities in cyber-physical systems (CPS). As recently demonstrated, a remote attacker can disrupt the operation of a car to either disable the vehicle or hijack it. High-profile security incidents in other CPS domains include a large-scale attack on Ukraine’s power-grid and the StuxNet attack on an industrial system, while the RQ-170 Sentinel drone capture has shown that even safety-critical military CPS can be compromised.