Introduction to Cyber Physical Security

Course Description

This is an introductory course to build foundational knowledge in Cyber Physical Security. While Cyber Security (CS) is to ensure security when we use globally interconnected digital network, Cyber Physical Security (CPS) is to ensure the security of critical, real-time, automated and distributed cyber physical infrastructures and facilities that we depend our livelihood on such as water, power (electrical), energy (oil, nuclear), communication, transportation, manufacturing, the emerging world of Internet-of-Things (IoT). This course starts with high level knowledge areas in CS foundations and principles. The course then expands to knowledge areas in Industrial Control System (ICS), embedded systems, mobile technology, wireless sensor networks, and hardware and firmware security, highlighting various architectures, devices, network, operations, processes, and their vulnerability and potential resilient solutions. Case studies such as an actual attack on power grids are used to analyze the incident and its responses. In some cases, tools are used to demonstrate the CPS applications.

Code

ECE 2105

Credits

3

Subject

ECE