Visible to the public Cyber-Physical Architecture for Automated Responses (CyPhAAR) Using SDN in Adversarial OT Environments

TitleCyber-Physical Architecture for Automated Responses (CyPhAAR) Using SDN in Adversarial OT Environments
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2020
AuthorsUlrich, Jacob, Rieger, Craig, Grandio, Javier, Manic, Milos
Conference Name2020 Resilience Week (RWS)
KeywordsAerospace electronics, automated response, Automated Response Actions, composability, control systems, critical infrastructure, cyber feedback, cyberattack, Intrusion detection, Microgrids, pubcrawl, resilience, Resiliency, Software Defined Networks
AbstractThe ability to react to a malicious attack starts with high fidelity recognition, and with that, an agile response to the attack. The current Operational Technology (OT) systems for a critical infrastructure include an intrusion detection system (IDS), but the ability to adapt to an intrusion is a human initiated response. Orchestrators, which are coming of age in the financial sector and allow for levels of automated response, are not prevalent in the OT space. To evolve to such responses in the OT space, a tradeoff analysis is first needed. This tradeoff analysis should evaluate the mitigation benefits of responses versus the physical affects that result. Providing an informed and automated response decision. This paper presents a formulation of a novel tradeoff analysis and its use in advancing a cyber-physical architecture for automated responses (CyPhAAR).
DOI10.1109/RWS50334.2020.9241285
Citation Keyulrich_cyber-physical_2020