Variable Speed Simulation for Accelerated Industrial Control System Cyber Training
Abstract
It is important for industrial control system operators to receive quality training to defend against cyber attacks. Hands-on training exercises with real-world control systems allow operators to learn various defensive techniques and see the real-world impact of changes made to a control system. Cyber attacks and operator actions can have unforeseen effects that take a significant amount of time to manifest and potentially cause physical harm to the system, making high-fidelity training exercises time-consuming and costly. This thesis presents a method for accelerating training exercises by simulating and predicting the effects of a cyber event on a partially-simulated control system. A hardware-in-the-loop system comprised of a software-modeled water tank and a commercially-available programmable logic controller is used to demonstrate the feasibility of this method. The results demonstrate the system's speedup capability which allows users to accurately simulate the effects of a cyber event at speeds faster than real-time.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 22, 2018
- Accession Number
- AD1055981
Entities
People
- Luke M. Bradford
Organizations
- Air Force Institute of Technology