DCS-Water’24: First International Conference on the Design of Cyber-Secure Water Plants The Water Tower Buford, GA, United States, April 23-24, 2024 |
Conference website | https://itrust.sutd.edu.sg/first-international-conference-on-the-design-of-cyber-secure-water-plants-dcs-water24/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dcswater24 |
Submission deadline | January 30, 2024 |
The 1st International Conference on the Design of Cyber-Secure Water Plants (DCS-Water’24) is a 2-day event aimed at bringing together a diverse group of researchers and practitioners to present and discuss novel methods and tools for protecting water plants against cyberattacks.
Numerous water and waste-water treatment plants produce water critical to the sustenance of our daily life. Plants that produce clean water, and the associated distribution networks, often use Industrial Control Systems (ICS). Such systems include, among others devices, PLCs, sensors, and communication networks to control the treatment plant and the distribution networks. Vulnerabilities in the ICS design, PLC software, communication network, and, most importantly, the existence of the human element, lead to the potential of successful cyberattacks. Such attacks could impact the operation of the water pants in various ways, such as, for example, component damage, production of poor-quality water, and supply interruption. Novel methods are needed to defend water plants against such cyberattacks.
Topics to be covered in the conference include, but are not limited to, the following.
- AI and ML to protect water plants
- Anomaly detection
- Case studies on live plants and testbeds
- Digital twins for cyber-security training
- Generative Adversarial Networks to protect water plants
- Honeypots for identifying cyber-threats to the water sector
- Identifying rogue treatment plant(s) in a distribution network
- Intelligent plant monitoring
- IT-OT integration for rapid attacker identification
- Methods to reduce false positives
- Plant control under live cyberattack
- Predictive Analytics
- Preventing anomaly cascade
- Testbeds in support of research, education, and training
- Zero-Trust design of water plants
Selected presentations from DCS’24 will be nominated for publication in a special issue of the open-access journal Water (ISSN 2073-4441, IF 3.4). The special issue is titled “Design of Cyber-Secure Water Plants” and is scheduled to appear in the third quarter of 2024.
For queries on DCS-Water’24, please write to itrust@sutd.edu.sg.
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