A Real Time Physics-Based Industrial Control System Honeynet Architecture for the Smart Grid
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Date of Original Version
1-1-2023
Abstract
Many details of cyber attacks occurred to Industrial Control Systems (ICS) such as power grids remain as a secret. To reveal those secrets and benefit a broad research community, we propose an original cyber-physical honeypot architecture that can seamlessly couple IT and OT components in an power grid. Specifically, we will provide high interaction with adversaries as physical processes of an ICS move forward, revealing attack strategies according to adversaries' knowledge on physical trajectories of the target system. Our preliminary evaluations demonstrate that the proposed CPS honeypot can present realistic device fingerprints and application-layer payload that piggybacks meaningful measurements conforming to the physical model of a power grid. In addition, by leveraging runtime high-fidelity OPAL-RT simulator, our CPS honeypot causes small latency, at least one order of magnitude smaller compared to the existing work.
Publication Title, e.g., Journal
Proceedings 2023 8th International Conference on Information and Network Technologies Icint 2023
Citation/Publisher Attribution
De Pace, Gabriel, Hui Lin, and Yan Lindsay Sun. "A Real Time Physics-Based Industrial Control System Honeynet Architecture for the Smart Grid." Proceedings 2023 8th International Conference on Information and Network Technologies Icint 2023 (2023). doi: 10.1109/ICINT58947.2023.00014.