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A Cyber-Physical Experimentation Platform for Resilience Analysis

Thorpe, Jamie T.; Fasano, Raymond E.; Sahakian, Meghan A.; Gonzales, Amanda G.; Hahn, Andrew S.; Morris, Joshua M.; Ortiz, Timothy O.; Laros, James H.; Vugrin, Eric D.

Recent high profile cyber attacks on critical infrastructures have raised awareness about the severe and widespread impacts that these attacks can have on everyday life. This awareness has spurred research into making industrial control systems and other cyber-physical systems more resilient. A plethora of cyber resilience metrics and frameworks have been proposed for cyber resilience assessments, but these approaches typically assume that data required to populate the metrics is readily available, an assumption that is frequently not valid. This paper describes a new cyber experimentation platform that can be used to generate relevant data and to calculate resilience metrics that quantify how resilient specified industrial control systems are to specified threats. Demonstration of the platform and analysis process are illustrated through a use case involving the control system for a pressurized water reactor.