Publication detail

Teaching ICS Security in Blended Classroom Environment

MATOUŠEK, P. RYŠAVÝ, O.

Original Title

Teaching ICS Security in Blended Classroom Environment

Type

conference paper

Language

English

Original Abstract

Demonstration of real industrial equipment, manufacturing processes, and control communication is essential for students of technical universities and colleges to improve their technical competencies and knowledge. To build an industrial control systems (ICS) lab with real hardware and control software usually requires a significant amount of finances. However, the lab equipment is usually accessible only to a limited number of students. A possible alternative is a blended classroom environment that combines real inexpensive devices connected with a configurable simulation environment. In such an environment, groups of students can create their own experiments and observe a near real-life behavior of an ICS system. In this paper we demonstrate how a blended ICS classroom can be built of the Factory I/O 3D software simulator and real UniPi PLC devices equipped with digital and analog inputs. Using such an environment, students may design a set of nontrivial manufacturing scenarios, e.g., a production line, and make experiments with ICS components. The paper presents the topology and equipment of the blended ICS classroom. We also introduce two lab scenarios focused on the security of ICS processes and analysis of Modbus communication in the ICS environment.

Keywords

simulation, industrial system, blended classroom, ICS security, ICS testbed

Authors

MATOUŠEK, P.; RYŠAVÝ, O.

Released

1. 9. 2021

Publisher

Czech Technical University

Location

Prague

ISBN

978-1-7281-9324-3

Book

Proceedings of the 2021 30th Annual Conference of the European Association for Education in Electrical and Information Engineering (EAEEIE)

Pages from

148

Pages to

153

Pages count

6

URL

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9530927

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT168496,
  author="Petr {Matoušek} and Ondřej {Ryšavý}",
  title="Teaching ICS Security in Blended Classroom Environment",
  booktitle="Proceedings of the 2021 30th Annual Conference of the European Association for Education in Electrical and Information Engineering (EAEEIE)",
  year="2021",
  pages="148--153",
  publisher="Czech Technical University",
  address="Prague",
  doi="10.1109/EAEEIE50507.2021.9530927",
  isbn="978-1-7281-9324-3",
  url="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9530927"
}