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
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 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.
Examining Cybersecurity Threats to EVs and Vehicle-to-Grid Infrastructure
The electric vehicle (EV) industry is overcoming challenges in order to improve the process of the charging network of EVs.
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
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
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
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.
Virginia wired for success in annual Business Facilities’ state rankings report
Virginia received high rankings for its digital strength and programs in this year’s state rankings by Business Facilities magazine.
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
UVA Engineering Helps Launch Center Aimed at Ensuring Electronic Devices are Secure
The University of Virginia School of Engineering is launching a new center that will be focused on ensuring electronic devices are designed to protect the people who use them …
UVA Engineering Helps Launch National Center Aimed at Ensuring Connected Electronic Devices are Secure and Trustworthy for Consumers
The University of Virginia School of Engineering is a founding partner of a national research center that is tackling an increasingly urgent challenge for industry: How to ensure that electronic devices and systems of connected devices are designed to protect the interests of consumers and communities that rely on them.
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