COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

IIT Kanpur

 

CS987: ADVANCED  CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURES SECURITY

 

 

Instructor: 

Dr. Sandeep K. Shukla
 Computer Science and Engineering Department

 

  • Major, Measurable Learning Objectives

 

Having successfully completed this course, the student will be able to:

 

  • Identify the key research questions in cyber-security of critical infrastructure
  • Apply research methods which includes survey, experiments, and articulation of research problems in this area, and methods for finding solutions to selected problems
  • Become adept at the use of machine learning for cyber security 
  • Present in written and/or verbal form key findings in the specific subject area of the course from contemporary research papers.
  • Read and analyze research papers from journals and conferences in the specific subject area of the course.

 

 

  • Prerequisites and Co-requisites

 

Prerequisites will include at least one course in operating systems, one course in networking, and one course in machine learning. Prior familiarity with preliminaries of cyber security would be helpful. With the instructor's permission, one or both prerequisites can be waived provided the instructor feels that the student has adequate exposure to the relevant topics in those courses.

 

  • Texts and Special Teaching Aids

Journal articles, conference papers, reports, advanced texts, and/or personal notes will be provided.

 

 

  • Syllabus

                                                                                                

The course will be based on journal and conference papers published in peer reviewed journals and conferences. The instructor will discuss the papers in class, but students are expected to read the papers and any background material to be prepared for homework/exams/projects.  

 

  1. Critical Infrastructure and Cyber Physical Systems  [2 hours]  
  2. Introduction to PLC/SCADA/OT  [2 hours] 
  3. Dynamics of CPS and Attack Surfaces [ 2 hours] 
  4. IT-OT Convergence and enhanced Attack surfaces [ 2 hours] 
  5. Intrusion to Affect Physical Dynamics [1 hour] 
  6. Intrusion Detection Methods – Rule Base [3 hours] 
  7. Intrusion Detection Methods – Machine Learning Based [6 hours] 
  8. Modeling of Cyber Physical Systems and Cyber Attacks [ 1 hour] 
  9. Risk Aware Cyber Security of Cyber Physical Systems  [ 1 hour]