Cyber-Physical War Gaming
This work addresses security research for military and critical infrastructure CPSs, but it is incremental as it builds on existing war gaming and modelling approaches.
The paper tackles the challenge of conducting security experiments on operational Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) by presenting general strategies for cyber war gaming, including table-top sessions and live simulations at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory, and shows how recorded actions can test and validate cyber-defence models like game-theoretic ones.
This paper presents general strategies for cyber war gaming of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) that are used for cyber security research at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL). Since Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) and other CPSs are operational systems, it is difficult or impossible to perform security experiments on actual systems. The authors describe how table-top strategy sessions and realistic, live CPS war games are conducted at ARL. They also discuss how the recorded actions of the war game activity can be used to test and validate cyber-defence models, such as game-theoretic security models.