
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 – 09:00 | Breakfast & Gathering |
Welcome + Keynote Speech (4:00-5:00 pm IL time)
09:00 – 09:10 | Prof. 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 – 09:20 | Eynan Lichterman, ICRDE Project Technical Advisor, US-Israel Energy Center |
09:20 – 10:00 | Keynote 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 – 10:20 | Cyber-Physical Security: Outside the Simulator Prof. Wenke Lee (Georgia Tech) and Prof. Aditya Mathur (Singapore University of Technology and Design) |
10:20 – 10:40 | Refinery Demonstrator Noam Gibson (Meptagon Group) |
10:40 – 11:00 | ICNL Lab Dataset Analysis Using Titan Prof. Rami Puzis (BGU) and J.R. Flynn (OTORIO) |
11:00 – 11:20 | AI for Data Quality Improvement and Battery Placement Prof. Yang Weng (ASU) and John Dirkman (Resource Innovations) |
11:20 – 11:40 | GANs for Generating Adversarial Attacks and Detecting Event Mimicking Attacks Prof. Lalitha Sankar (ASU) and John Dirkman (Resource Innovations) |
11:40 – 13:00 | Poster Session and Lunch |
Session 2: Exhibition and Demo Presentations (2/2) (8:00-9:00 pm IL time)
13:00 – 13:40 | Multi-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 – 14:00 | Deepfake CAPTCHAs to Prevent Impersonation Attacks Dr. Yisroel Mirsky (BGU) |
Session 3: ICS Cybersecurity Panel (09:00-10:30pm, IL time)
14:00 – 15:20 | Title: 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 – 15:30 | Coffee Break |
Session 4: Presentations from International Collaborators (1/2) (10:30-11:50 pm, IL time)
15:30 – 15:50 | Advanced Data Analytics for Power System Situational Awareness under Cyber-Physical Events Dr. Rui Yang, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA |
15:50 – 16:10 | Securing Renewable and EV Charging Infrastructure with Cyber-Physical Anomaly Detection Systems Jorge Pineda and Jay Johnson, DER Security Corp., USA |
16:10 – 16:30 | Cyber Situational Awareness in IT/OT context: key attributes and a proposed framework Dr. Nadia Saad-Noori, University of Agder, Norway |
16:30 – 17:00 | From 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 – 09:00 | Breakfast / Refreshments |
09:00 – 09:30 | Keynote 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 – 10:00 | Keynote 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 – 10:20 | Securing 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 – 10:40 | Protecting Energy Systems from Cyber Threats – Balancing Human-Machine Contribution Dr. Yaniv Harel, CSO, Cyber Research Center, Tel Aviv University, Israel |
10:40 – 11:00 | Partnering 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 – 11:20 | Sequential patterns-based anomaly detection Prof. Robert Moskovitch (BGU) |
11:20 – 11:35 | Anomalous Activity Detection in SCADA Systems and its Explainability Dr. Nir Nissim & Gil Shenderovitz (BGU) |
11:35 – 12:05 | Threat intelligence, threat hunting, and Improving detection of anomalies using XAI Prof. Rami Puzis (BGU) |
12:05 – 12:25 | An Adversarial approach to evaluating the robustness of event identification models Prof. Lalitha Sankar (ASU) |
12:25 – 13:30 | Poster Session and Lunch |
Session 3: Modelling and Monitoring of Energy Systems (8:30-9:10 pm IL time)
13:30 – 13:50 | Identifying common operational patterns (COPEs) in ICS using temporal pattern mining approach Prof. Robert Moskovitch (BGU) |
13:50 – 14:10 | Assured machine learning and cyber deployment John Dirkman (Resource Innovations), Prof. Yang Weng (ASU) |
14:10 – 14:30 | An 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 – 14:50 | Preventing Next Generation Spear Phishing Attacks: Deepfake Captchas Dr. Yisroel Mirsky (BGU) |
14:50 – 15:10 | Practical Deployment Architecture for Alerting Malware Activities in ICS/SCADA Networks Prof. Wenke Lee (GIT), Matthew Lau (GIT), Ron Insler (RAD) |
15:10 – 15:30 | False data injection Prof. Yang Weng (ASU), Ilan Gendelman (SIGA OT) and Hagai Galili (SIGA OT) |
15:30 – 15:40 | Coffee & Tea Break |
Session 4: Tools for Control and Mitigation of Threats for Achieving Resilience (10:40-11:50 pm, IL time)
15:40 – 16:00 | Safeguarding Embedded Controllers through Side Channel Analysis Prof. Yossi Oren (BGU) |
16:00 – 16:20 | SubProcess BFT++: Robust Cyber Attack Resilience for Production Industrial Control Systems Prof. Sukarno Mertoguno (GIT) |
16:20 – 16:40 | Empowering the future: security by design in the energy sector Dr. Dov Shirtz (BGU) |
16:40 – 16:50 | Closing Remarks (11:20-11:30 pm, IL time) |
Day 2 Adjourn