Making an Office Nerf Turret: A Vulnerable, Cyber-Kinetic Demonstration

Abstract

Our Cyber Lab team within the Operational Evaluation Division (OED) developed a mini-tutorial on basic cybersecurity concepts for the 2020 Defense and Aerospace Test and Analysis Workshop (DATAWorks) conference. To make the results of cyber compromise more tangible, we designed and constructed a desktop Office Nerf Turret (ONT) to be the centerpiece of the tutorial. This write up is a supplement to the mini-tutorial, and explains how we built the ONT and some of the vulnerabilities incorporated into the demonstration. This document lists the hardware used to build the turret, including the 3D printed firing mechanism. We also highlight useful tutorials that contributed to the development of the machine learning and tracking components of the ONT.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 2020
Accession Number
AD1147104

Entities

People

  • Jason R. Schlup
  • Mark R. Herrera
  • Peter Mancini

Organizations

  • Institute for Defense Analyses

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Command And Control
  • Computer Vision
  • Control Systems
  • Cyberattacks
  • Cybersecurity
  • Deep Learning
  • Demonstrations
  • Diagrams
  • Facial Recognition
  • Learning
  • Local Area Networks
  • Machine Learning
  • Network Protocols
  • Recognition
  • Supervised Machine Learning
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Vulnerability

Readers

  • Computer Science.
  • Cybersecurity.
  • STEM Education

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • Cyber
  • Cyber - Quantum
  • Space