SURE Gathers to Report on 2015 Resiliency Work

SURE researchers met for their annual review of System Science of SecUrity and REsilience for Cyber-Physical Systems (SURE) projects. Four universities (Vanderbilt, Hawaii, California-Berkeley, and MIT) researchers gathered with members of NSA’s Trusted Research Directorate for an annual review on November 18, 2015. SURE is the NSA-funded project aimed at improving scientific understanding of resiliency in cyber physical systems (CPS).  The project addresses the question of how to design systems that are resilient despite significant decentralization of resources and decision-making. 

During the meeting, SURE partipants demonstrated the project developed cloud-based testbed for evaluating and measuring resiliency through modeling. The 2015 review also included presentations on five research products.

Prof. Koutsoukos, the PI from Vanderbilt University, described the testbed as a platform that allows integration of simulators to conduct experiments that can lead to the development of metrics for resilience.  The current research thrusts on the testbed are cyber risk analysis ad incentive design, resilient monitoring and control, and science of decentralized security. Demonstrations which allowed the audience participation using their own browsers covered decentralized security in adversarial and an evaluation of vulnerability of transportation networks related to traffic signal control and tampering.  

For more information about the SURE 2015 Review meeting and the presentations, see SoS Newsletter (Vol 2015- Issue 9) stories at https://cps-vo.org/node/23517 and https://cps-vo.org/node/23518.