A Common Automation Framework for Cyber-Physical Power System Defense
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As the power grid becomes more complex and integrated with communication networks,
cyber-attacks become an increasingly relevant threat. CYPRES (Cyber Physical Resilient Energy
Systems) is a system for simulating cyber and physical attacks on a power grid by comprehensively
modeling a cyber-physical hardware-in-the-loop power system. However, the CYPRES system is
tedious to spin up, as multiple sub-systems of the framework involve interdependencies across
different applications. This paper details a common automation framework for the CYPRES sys-
tem that both removes this manual overhead from running the system and drastically improves
CYPRES’ initialization speed. With the Jenkins, a continuous integration/continuous development
tool, the author has established this automation infrastructure, RESAuto, for CYPRES system and
demonstrated the benefits and effectiveness of automating manually intensive sub-systems opera-
tions with much simpler operations and less time consumption. This automation system makes it
much easier to test more complex threat scenarios for larger, more realistic, and manually intensive
scenarios. In addition to this, RESAuto also provides a real-time dashboard that shows simulation
status and network traffic, allowing users to monitor RESLab’s distributed computing resources at
a glance
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modeling, simulation, automation, virtualization