EPOCHS: A Platform for Agent-Based Electric Power and Communication Simulation Built From Commercial Off-the-Shelf Components

A cyber-physical experimentation environment for the security analysis of networked industrial control systems

“…Furthermore, it might also need a detailed knowledge on the malware dynamics, that is not always available. In the same category we find the work of Hopkinson, et al [11], in which power system simulators were coupled together with the NS-2 simulator. This approach suffers from the same disadvantages as the solution proposed by Chabukswar, et al, that we overcome in the proposed framework by employing real components in the cyber layer.…”

“…In this sense, we identified three categories of cyber layer and two categories of physical layer implementations. For cyber layer implementations the following approaches were found: only real components (Nai Fovino [8] [11]). In McDonald's approach we found that the physical layer includes both real and simulated components.…”

“…The main novelty of the proposed framework is that it combines the Emulab testbed with typical NICS components and Simulink models in order to provide a set of key functionalities that are missing from related techniques [7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14]. As the Emulab testbed was specifically designed to provide capabilities for advanced networking experimentation, it already includes most of the functionalities required by our framework (see Table 2), e.g.…”

“…Most of the previously mentioned functionalities are missing from related approaches that employ real cyber and simulated physical components [12,14], as shown later in this paper. On the other hand, approaches that rely on simulated cyber and physical components [11,10] are less expensive and most of them include several functionalities among the previously mentioned. However, they do not support key functionalities that would enable experimentation with real malware/SCADA software.…”

Discrete Event Simulation of QoS of a SCADA System Interconnecting a Power Grid and a Telco Network

“…[2] and underlines how a given topological network asset may improve network resilience in response to an accidental failure but may also expose the network to high vulnerabilities in the presence of malicious attacks. A simulative analysis in which a federation of multiple domain-specific simulators, [3] or the development of specific tools for the simulation of interdependent infrastructures, [4] is proposed. A service oriented risk analysis in which the problem is simplified, considering that CIs support and fulfill services [5,6,7].…”