Publication Details
Teaching ICS Security in Blended Classroom Environment
simulation, industrial system, blended classroom, ICS security, ICS testbed
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.
@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"
}