Agenda
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Day 1, November 9, Monday, 08:30-17:00
Moderator: Prof. Yang Weng and Prof. Rami Puzis
| 08:30 – 09:00 | Continental breakfast at Hyatt Place |
| 09:00 – 09:10 | Workshop Opening and Welcome Dr. Kyle Squires, Dean, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, ASU Tal Fischelovitch, Director of Partnerships, US-Israel Energy Center |
| 09:10 – 09:40 | Keynote speech: Challenges in Energy Transformation with an Eye to Cybersecurity Dr. Gideon Friedmann, Chief Scientist, Israel Ministry of Energy |
Session 1: Modelling and Monitoring of Energy Systems (19:40 – 20:50 Israeli time)
| 09:40 – 10:00 | Identifying common operational patterns (COPEs) in ICS using temporal pattern mining approach Asaf Shabtai (BGU) |
| 10:00 – 10:20 | Breaking OT test bed Harry Thomas, Matan Dubroshin (OTORIO) |
| 10:20 – 10:50 | Assured Machine Learning and Cyber Deployment Yang Weng (ASU), John Dirkman (Resource Innovations/Nexant) |
| 10:50 – 11:00 | Coffee & Tea Break |
Session 2: Tools for Learning and Detection of Cyberattacks on IT/OT Architecture (1/2)
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Towards safety-critical commercial-grade Artificial Intelligence to enhance grid reliability and cybersecurity Lalitha Sankar, Joel Mathias (ASU) |
| 11:30 – 11:50 | Sequential patterns-based anomaly detection Robert Moskovitch (BGU) |
| 11:50 – 12:10 | Deepfake Voice Call Detection: Mitigating Next-Gen Social Engineering Guy Frankovits, Yisroel Mirsky (BGU) |
| 12:10 – 12:30 | Improving anomalies detection using XAI Liat Antwarg, Bracha Shapira (BGU) |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch at Hyatt Place |
| 13:10 – 13:30 | ASU Global Overview Julia Rosen, Vice President of Global Academic Initiatives, ASU |
Session 3: Tools for Learning and Detection of Cyberattacks on IT/OT Architecture (2/2) (23:30 – +1 01:00 +1 Israeli time)
| 13:30 – 14:00 | Theat intelligence and threat-hunting plugins for RAM^2 Nir Daniel, Rami Puzis (BGU) |
| 14:10 – 14:30 | Practical Deployment Architecture for Alerting Malware Activities in ICS/SCADA Networks Bo Feng, Moses Ike, Wenke Lee (GIT) |
| 14:30 – 15:00 | False data injection Yang Weng, Napoleon Enriquez (ASU), Michael Hylton, Ilan Gendelman, Hagai Galili (SIGA OT) |
| 15:00 – 15:10 | Coffee & Tea Break |
Discussion of ICRDE Project Extension, 15:10-17:00 (+1 01:10 – 03:00 Israeli time)
Presentation of new research ideas (each presentation ~5 minutes, 15:10-16:10):
| Dov Shirtz, Ben-Gurion University, Israel Closing the gaps between IT and OT |
| Robert Moskovitch, Ben-Gurion University, Israel Improving situational awareness using the development of similarity function with interval patterns |
| Wenkee Lee, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Achieving security and reliability of industrial control systems using data-driven models informed by physical domain knowledge |
| Ying-Cheng Lai, Arizona State University, USA Advanced machine-learning based attack detection and cyber-defense of power grids |
| Sukarno Mertoguno, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA RISC-V Program Execution Monitoring & Control (PEMon) |
| Sukarno Mertoguno, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA RumRaisin on Chip (RRoC) |
| Ron Insler, RAD, Israel AI for NG traffic engineering and services |
| Larisa Tsirinsky, Embedded Solutions, Israel 1D convolutional neural networks for bit net sentry |
| Ilan Gendelman, SIGA OT, Israel Simulated attack generation and optimization of SIGA’s detection based on inter-level monitoring |
| Open discussion, 16:20-17:00 |
| 17:30 – 18:30 | Poster Session |
| 18:30 – 20:00 | Dinner at Hyatt Place |
| 18:30 – 19:30 | Music Performance by Mariachi Pasion, www.mariachipasion.com |
| 19:30 – 19:50 | Review of work in the US-Israel Energy Center ICRDE project Project Directors – Rami Puzis (BGU), Yang Weng (ASU) |
| 20:00 – 21:00 | Poster Session |
Day 1 Adjourn
Day 2, October 10, Tuesday, 09:00-17:00
| 08:30 – 09:00 | Continental breakfast at Hyatt Place |
| 09:00 – 09:30 | Keynote Speech: Jared Bierbach, Senior International Relations Officer, Office of International Affairs, U.S. Department of Energy |
Session 4A: Meeting with Industry Cybersecurity Experts (1/2), 09:30-11:00 (19:30 – 21:00 Israeli time)
Panel A: Simulation and Security Assessment in Industrial Control Systems (ICS)
Moderators: Rami Puzis, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
Panelists:
Aditya Ashok, OPAL-RT Technologies, Canada
Seth Hoedi, Post Road Foundation, USA
Harry Thomas, OTORIO, Israel
Rui Yang, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA
Haim Beltran, Meptagon, Israel (zoom connection)
| 11:00 – 11:10 | Coffee & Tea Break |
Session 4B: Meeting with Industry Cybersecurity Experts (2/2), 11:10-12:40 (21:10 – 22:40 Israeli time)
Panel B: Attack Detection and Mitigation
Moderator: Adam Hahn, The MITRE Corporation, USA
Panelists:
John Gringer, RAD, Israel
Michael Hylton, Microwave Networks / Partner of SIGA OT, Israel
Sherry Jacob, Accenture Security, Israel
Ying-Cheng Lai, Arizona State University, USA
Mayang Malik, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory & Stanford University, USA
Harry Thomas, OTORIO, Israel
Asaf Shabtai, Ben-Gurion University, Israel (zoom connection)
| 12:40 – 13:40 | Lunch at Hyatt Place |
| 13:20 – 13:40 | US-Israel Business Opportunities: A Roadmap for Success Mara Pernick, President, MGP Consulting |
Session 4C: Discussion with Industry Cybersecurity Experts, 13:40-15:10 (23:40 – +1 01:10 Israeli time)
Panel C: Security Assessment and Information Sharing
Moderator: John Dirkman, Resource Innovations, USA
Panelists:
Francois Detroio, Orthros, Canada
Adam Hahn, The MITRE Corporation, USA
Sukarno Mertoguno, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Nadia Saad Nuri, University of Agder, Norway
Dov Shirtz, Ben-Gurion University, Israel (zoom connection)
Oleg Brodt, Ben-Gurion University, Israel (zoom connection)
| 15:10 – 15:20 | Coffee & Tea Break |
Demonstrations of Company Cybersecurity Solutions, 15:20-17:00 (+1 01:20 – 03:00 Israeli time)
Note: Company representatives are encouraged to prepare slides for presentations and demonstrations. Please notify the workshop management team of your intention to present.
(1) Opal-RT; Hardware-in-the-loop
(2) Resource Innovations; Grid360
Session 5: (Parallel Session) Technical and Budget Discussion of ICRDE project extension
| 15:30 – 16:30 | Tal Fischelovitch (Lead), Daniel Rosenthal, project management team |
| 17:00 – 18:00 | Poster Session |
| 18:30 – 20:00 | Dinner at ASU Memorial Union |
| 20:00 – 20:30 | Tour of Professor Yang Weng’s Lab on ASU campus |
Day 2 Adjourn
Day 3, October 11, Wednesday, 09:00-12:10
| 08:30 – 09:00 | Breakfast at Hyatt Place |
| 09:00 – 09:10 | Support of ECEE in Facilitating the ICRDE project Dr. Stephen Philips, Director, School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, ASU |
Session 6: Tools for Control and Mitigation of Threats for Achieving Resilience
| 09:10 – 09:40 | Safeguarding Embedded Controllers through Side Channel Analysis Michael Amar, Yossi Oren (BGU) |
| 09:40 – 10:10 | SubProcess BFT++: Robust Cyber Attack Resilience for Production Industrial Control Systems Muhammad Faraz Karim, Bo Feng, Sukarno Mertoguno (GIT) |
| 10:10 – 10:40 | Heterogeneous reinforcement learning for defending large power grids and commercialization Ying-Cheng Lai (ASU) |
| 10:40 – 10:50 | Coffee & Tea Break |
Session 7: Future-proof Architectures
| 10:50 – 11:20 | Empowering the future: security by design in the energy sector Dov Shirtz, Yuval Elovici (BGU) |
| 11:20 – 11:50 | Hardware-in-the-loop validation Yeng Wang (ASU), Philippe Bisson (OPAL-RT) |
Closing Remarks
| 11:50 – 12:00 | Closing Remarks |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Lunch at Hyatt Place |
Tour 1: October 11, Wednesday, 13:30-18:00
Tour of nearby attractions (some suggestions)
(Decision on attractions and ride arrangement TBD. Contact the management team if interested.)
| Heard (Native American) Museum, https://heard.org |
| Phoenix Art Museum, https://www.phxart.org |
Tour 2: October 12, Thursday 07:00 – Thursday 18:00
Tour of the Grand Canyon
(Ride arrangement TBD. Contact the management team if interested.)
Tentative Schedule: Depart for the Grand Canyon early Thursday morning and return in the evening. This would allow workshop guests to catch their flights (late) on Thursday night or Friday.