CCALS Partner Initiatives

Cyber Risk & Resilience

Summary

  • Problem: Ensure the trust and security of embedded hardware and components in cyber-physical, IoT, and logistics systems
  • Interest: Security and trust is critical to aviation, automotive, transportation, healthcare, financial services, defense, maritime and other industries
  • Benefit: Cyber security expertise, workforce development, state support

Partners

  • Jim Lambert (UVA)
  • Tom Roper (VCU)
  • Mike Robinson (ODU)
  • Joseph Shelton (VSU)

Technical Objectives/Approach

  • Review current cyber-physical, IoT, and logistics systems for vulnerabilities and weaknesses
  • Collaboratively develop risk register to minimize exposure to malicious attacks
  • Perform resilience analysis to facilitate recovery and protection of critical systems
  • Train next generation of university students

Project Impact/Takeaway

  • Provide protection against malicious attacks
  • Provide well-trained students
  • Partner to develop company-specific risk register and identification of effective countermeasures

Articles

Meet the Port of Virginia Cybersecurity Interns

Meet the Port of Virginia Cybersecurity Interns

Meet three of the outstanding interns working on the Port of Virginia’s new cybersecurity lab with ODU’s Dr. Sachin Shetty, professor and Executive Director of the Center for Secure and Intelligent Critical Systems at Old Dominion University and faculty from Longwood University, Virginia State University, the University of Virginia and Virginia International Terminals, LLC, in a project funded by the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative.

CCALS, Virginia State University and the University of Virginia Co-Host Worldwide Symposium on Engineering Systems in 2021

CCALS, Virginia State University and the University of Virginia Co-Host Worldwide Symposium on Engineering Systems in 2021

CCALS and Virginia State University (VSU), joined by the University of Virginia (UVA), hosted some of the world’s leading engineering systems researchers this October for CESUN 2021. Held virtually and in person in Charlottesville, VA on Oct. 10-12, 2021, the hybrid symposium welcomed its far-flung participants – for many, the first in-person scientific conference/symposium since the COVID-19 pandemic began.

IoT Security Risks Addressed in IEEE SIEDS Presentation

IoT Security Risks Addressed in IEEE SIEDS Presentation

One of the papers presented at IEEE SIEDS 2021 focused on the rise of advanced logistical systems embedded in smart devices, and the systems security issues they increasingly pose, and has just been published on IEEE Xplore.

ODU Professor Awarded CCI Project Grant

ODU Professor Awarded CCI Project Grant

Sachin Shetty, who holds dual appointments as executive director of the Center for Secure & Intelligent Critical Systems at Old Dominion University’s Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center (VMASC) and associate professor in the Department of Computational Modeling and Simulation Engineering, was awarded a grant to develop student experiential learning programs at the Port of Virginia …

CHEST Center Inspires Congressional Action

CHEST Center Inspires Congressional Action

Longtime CCALS partner University of Virginia is a key member of this important initiative.

Last week U.S. Representatives Steve Chabot (R-Westwood), Mike Turner (R-Dayton) and Marcia Fudge (D-Cleveland) submitted to the House Rules Committee an amendment to the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act to help bolster cyber security efforts nationwide.

UVA Engineering Joins New Center Seeking to Protect Connecting Systems

UVA Engineering Joins New Center Seeking to Protect Connecting Systems

The University of Virginia School of Engineering is a founding partner of a new national research center that is addressing these urgent challenges. The Center for Hardware and Embedded Systems Security and Trust, known as CHEST, earned a prestigious designation as a National Science Foundation Industry-University Cooperative Research Center as of Oct. 1

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