ADROC: An Emulation Experimentation Platform for Advancing Resilience of Control Systems

Technical Report · Sat Oct 01 04:00:00 EDT 2022

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1891703· OSTI ID:1891703

Thorpe, Jamie ^[1]; Fasano, Raymond ^[1]; Livesay, Michael ^[1]; Sahakian, Meghan ^[1]; Reinbolt, Hannah ^[1]; Vugrin, Eric ^[1]

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1. Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)

Cyberattacks against industrial control systems have increased over the last decade, making it more critical than ever for system owners to have the tools necessary to understand the cyber resilience of their systems. However, existing tools are often qualitative, subject matter expertise-driven, or highly generic, making thorough, data-driven cyber resilience analysis challenging. The ADROC project proposed to develop a platform to enable efficient, repeatable, data-driven cyber resilience analysis for cyber-physical systems. The approach consists of two phases of modeling: computationally efficient math modeling and high-fidelity emulations. The first phase allows for scenarios of low concern to be quickly filtered out, conserving resources available for analysis. The second phase supports more detailed scenario analysis, which is more predictive of real-world systems. Data extracted from experiments is used to calculate cyber resilience metrics. ADROC then ranks scenarios based on these metrics, enabling prioritization of system resources to improve cyber resilience.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Laboratories (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
• DOE Contract Number: NA0003525
• OSTI ID: 1891703
• Report Number(s): SAND2022-14011; 710795
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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