CPS: Synergy: High-Fidelity, Scalable, Open-Access Cyber Security Testbed for Accelerating Smart Grid Innovations and Deployments

电网是一个复杂的信息物理系统，是现代社会的生命线。电网的网络安全和弹性对国家安全和经济福祉至关重要。CPS安全测试平台是使能技术，为在受控环境中评估和验证安全技术提供现实的实验平台，它们也使探索鲁棒的安全解决方案成为可能。该项目有两个目标：（a）为大规模CPS安全测试平台开发创新的架构、抽象、模型和算法;以及（B）为智能电网设计和实现高保真、可扩展、开放访问的CPS安全测试床，并进行研究实验。该试验台在模块化设计中集成了适当的网络控制物理硬件/软件组件，模型和算法，使较小的试验台能够形成大规模的虚拟实验环境。测试床的用例包括漏洞评估、风险评估、风险缓解研究和攻击防御演习。该项目还旨在开发标准化的数据集、模型、库和用例，并通过利用学术和行业合作伙伴的合作，通过开放的远程访问模型将测试平台提供给更广泛的研究社区。除了为实现未来安全和弹性电网的研究和技术做出贡献外，该项目开发和传播创新的课程模块，包括CPS网络防御竞赛（CPS-CDC），通过基于探究的学习模式向学生传授安全知识。该项目还在论文工作和Capstone项目中指导学生，包括代表性不足的少数民族，并通过试验台演示让高中生接触网络安全概念。

The electric power grid is a complex cyber-physical system (CPS) that forms the lifeline of modern society. Cybersecurity and resiliency of the power grid is of paramount importance to national security and economic well-being. CPS security testbeds are enabling technologies that provide realistic experimental platforms for the evaluation and validation of security technologies within controlled environments, and they also enable the exploration of robust security solutions.The project has two objectives: (a) to develop innovative architectures, abstractions, models, and algorithms for large-scale CPS security testbeds; and (b) to design and implement a high-fidelity, scalable, open-access CPS security testbed for the smart grid, and to conduct research experimentation. The testbed integrates appropriate cyber-control-physical hardware/software components, models, and algorithms in a modular design that enables federation of smaller testbeds to form a large-scale virtual experimental environment. The use cases for the testbed include vulnerability assessment, risk assessment, risk mitigation studies, and attack-defense exercises. The project also aims to develop standardized datasets, models, libraries, and use cases, and make the testbed available to a broader research community through an open-, remote-access model by leveraging collaboration from academic and industry partners.Besides contributing to research and technology that will enable a future electric power grid that is secure and resilient, this project develops and disseminates innovative curriculum modules including CPS Cyber Defense Competitions (CPS-CDC) for imparting security knowledge to students via an inquiry-based learning paradigm. The project also mentors students, including underrepresented minorities, in thesis work and Capstone projects, and exposes high-school students to cybersecurity concepts via testbed demonstrations.