Agenda

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Moderator: Prof. Rami Puzis and Prof. Yang Weng (all times shown are in US Eastern time)

Day 1, Tuesday, January 28, 08:15 – 17:00

08:15 – 09:00Breakfast & Gathering

Welcome + Keynote Speech (4:00-5:00 pm IL time)

09:00 – 09:10Prof. Wenke Lee, School of Cybersecurity & Privacy, Georgia Tech
Prof. Yang Weng, ICRDE US Director, School of ECEE, Arizona State University
Prof. Rami Puzis, ICRDE Israeli Director, Cyber Labs, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
09:10 – 09:20Eynan Lichterman, ICRDE Project Technical Advisor, US-Israel Energy Center
09:20 – 10:00Keynote speech: Outstanding and emerging security challenges in the energy sector
Paul Selby, Deputy Chief Information Security Officer, Department of Energy, USA

Session 1: Exhibition and Demo Presentations (1/2) (5:00-8:00 pm IL time)

10:00 – 10:20Cyber-Physical Security: Outside the Simulator
Prof. Wenke Lee (Georgia Tech) and Prof. Aditya Mathur (Singapore University of Technology and Design)
10:20 – 10:40Refinery Demonstrator
Noam Gibson (Meptagon Group)
10:40 – 11:00ICNL Lab Dataset Analysis Using Titan
Prof. Rami Puzis (BGU) and J.R. Flynn (OTORIO)
11:00 – 11:20AI for Data Quality Improvement and Battery Placement
Prof. Yang Weng (ASU) and John Dirkman (Resource Innovations)
11:20 – 11:40GANs for Generating Adversarial Attacks and Detecting Event Mimicking Attacks
Prof. Lalitha Sankar (ASU) and John Dirkman (Resource Innovations)
11:40 – 13:00Poster Session and Lunch

Session 2: Exhibition and Demo Presentations (2/2) (8:00-9:00 pm IL time)

13:00 – 13:40Multi-phase Attack Detection for Power Utilities: A Demonstration Showcasing Advanced Threat Detection Against Coordinated and Sophisticated Cyberattacks
Prof. Yang Weng (ASU), Hagai Galili (SIGA OT) and Ilan Gendelman (SIGA OT)
13:40 – 14:00Deepfake CAPTCHAs to Prevent Impersonation Attacks
Dr. Yisroel Mirsky (BGU)

Session 3: ICS Cybersecurity Panel (09:00-10:30pm, IL time)         

14:00 – 15:20Title: Advanced AI agents in industrial control systems (ICS)
Moderator: Prof. Rami Puzis, BGU
Panelists:
● Prof. Wenke Lee, Georgia Tech
● Prof. Lalitha Sankar, ASU
● John Dirkman, Resource Innovations
● Dr. Adam Hahn, MITRE
● Dr. Rui Yang, NREL
15:20 – 15:30Coffee Break

Session 4: Presentations from International Collaborators (1/2) (10:30-11:50 pm, IL time)

15:30 – 15:50Advanced Data Analytics for Power System Situational Awareness under
Cyber-Physical Events
Dr. Rui Yang, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA
15:50 – 16:10Securing Renewable and EV Charging Infrastructure with Cyber-Physical Anomaly Detection Systems
Jorge Pineda and Jay Johnson, DER Security Corp., USA
16:10 – 16:30Cyber Situational Awareness in IT/OT context: key attributes and a proposed framework
Dr. Nadia Saad-Noori, University of Agder, Norway
16:30 – 17:00From Static Defenses to Industrial-Grade Adaptive Shields: Data-Driven MTD for Renewable-rich Smart Grids Against Advanced Cyber Threats
Dr. Mostafa Mohammadpourfard, Texas Tech University, USA

Tour of Georgia Tech Cybersecurity Facilities, 17:00 – 18:00

Day 1 Adjourn

Day 2, Wednesday, January 29, 08:15 – 16:50

08:15 – 09:00Breakfast / Refreshments
09:00 – 09:30Keynote Speech: Jared Bierbach, Senior International Relations Officer, Office of International Affairs, U.S. Department of Energy (4:00-4:30 pm, IL time)
09:30 – 10:00Keynote Speech: Critical Infrastructure in the Crosshairs: Why Research and
Innovation Can’t Wait? (4:30-5:00 pm, IL time)
Asaf Turner, Cybersecurity Strategy Expert & Founder, Maya Security

Session 1: Presentations from International Collaborators (2/2) (05:00-06:00 pm, IL time)

10:00 – 10:20Securing Critical Infrastructure through Testbeds, Cyber Twins, and Exercises
Prof. Aditya Mathur, Siddhant Shrivastava and other iTrust team members, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore
10:20 – 10:40Protecting Energy Systems from Cyber Threats – Balancing Human-Machine Contribution
Dr. Yaniv Harel, CSO, Cyber Research Center, Tel Aviv University, Israel
10:40 – 11:00Partnering for Innovation: E.S. Embedded Solutions 3000 and ICRDE Advancing AI in ICS with CNN and RNN
Dr. Larisa Tsirinsky, Embedded Solutions, Israel

Session 2: Tools for Learning & Detection of Cyberattacks of IT/OT Architecture (1/2) (6:00-7:25 pm IL time)

11:00 – 11:20Sequential patterns-based anomaly detection
Prof. Robert Moskovitch (BGU)
11:20 – 11:35Anomalous Activity Detection in SCADA Systems and its Explainability
Dr. Nir Nissim & Gil Shenderovitz (BGU)
11:35 – 12:05Threat intelligence, threat hunting, and Improving detection of anomalies using XAI
Prof. Rami Puzis (BGU)
12:05 – 12:25An Adversarial approach to evaluating the robustness of event identification models
Prof. Lalitha Sankar (ASU)
12:25 – 13:30Poster Session and Lunch

Session 3: Modelling and Monitoring of Energy Systems (8:30-9:10 pm IL time)

13:30 – 13:50Identifying common operational patterns (COPEs) in ICS using temporal pattern mining approach
Prof. Robert Moskovitch (BGU)
13:50 – 14:10Assured machine learning and cyber deployment
John Dirkman (Resource Innovations), Prof. Yang Weng (ASU)
14:10 – 14:30An Evidence-Driven Analysis of Threat Information Sharing Challenges for Industrial Control Systems
Dr. Adam Hahn (MITRE)

Session 3: Tools for Learning & Detection of Cyberattacks of IT/OT Architecture (2/2) (9:30-10:30 pm IL time)

14:30 – 14:50Preventing Next Generation Spear Phishing Attacks: Deepfake Captchas
Dr. Yisroel Mirsky (BGU)
14:50 – 15:10Practical Deployment Architecture for Alerting Malware Activities in ICS/SCADA Networks
Prof. Wenke Lee (GIT), Matthew Lau (GIT), Ron Insler (RAD)
15:10 – 15:30False data injection
Prof. Yang Weng (ASU), Ilan Gendelman (SIGA OT) and Hagai Galili (SIGA OT)
15:30 – 15:40Coffee & Tea Break

Session 4: Tools for Control and Mitigation of Threats for Achieving Resilience (10:40-11:50 pm, IL time)

15:40 – 16:00Safeguarding Embedded Controllers through Side Channel Analysis
Prof. Yossi Oren (BGU)
16:00 – 16:20SubProcess BFT++: Robust Cyber Attack Resilience for Production Industrial Control Systems
Prof. Sukarno Mertoguno (GIT)
16:20 – 16:40Empowering the future: security by design in the energy sector
Dr. Dov Shirtz (BGU)
16:40 – 16:50Closing Remarks (11:20-11:30 pm, IL time)

Day 2 Adjourn