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AFOSR Visit at ASU

AFOSR Visit at Professor Yang Weng's Lab

Officers from Air Force visited ASU for various presentations of different departments, exchange of ideas and lab demonstration by Professor Yang Weng's group. The above picture is a group photo with the Air Force Officers, Associate Dean for Research for engineering schools, ASU Center for Science and the Imagination clicked in the Engineering Research Center (ERC) Room No. 793.

AFOSR Visit at ASU

US-Israel Energy Center ICRDE Cybersecurity Workshop V

In-person meeting at Arizona State University to share with some of progress updates and outcomes of this Israel-US binational joint project with the consortium members and cybersecurity experts from the industry, academia, national laboratories, government agencies. Talks include invited presentations that focus on tool development, integration, demonstration of the practical values and potential impact of the research outcomes that include cyberattack monitoring and mitigation, and commercialization in collaboration with industry partners.

U.S. Israel partnership established to transform cybersecurity solutions

Indicators of Behaviors (IoB) Meeting

Lead Cyber Analytics Engineer from the MITRE Corporation gave a presentation on the Protocol/Function/Payload abstraction used in the past to discuss ICS network protocols. The slides can be accessed here and video can be accessed here.

AFOSR Visit at ASU

Visit by US personnel to Meptagon's lab

A distinguished delegation of U.S. federal cyber policy makers and experts took a detour from the CyberTech conference in Tel Aviv to the southern Israeli town of Kiryat Gat to hear about the BIRD-managed U.S.-Israel Energy Center's Cyber Consortium.

U.S. Israel partnership established to transform cybersecurity solutions

BGU and OTORIO representatives visited Meptagon

U.S. Israel partnership established to transform cybersecurity solutions

Meptagon, SIGA, OTORIO, RAD, BGU, and Embedded Solutions presented to Delek US

In this meeting, representatives from Delek US, OTORIO, RAD, and BGU came to talk with Meptagon about the requirements needed and interesting attack scenarios to construct the Delek US lab. The meeting was held at Meptagon Lab (Kiryat Gat, Israel).

U.S. Israel partnership established to transform cybersecurity solutions

Cyber Tech Midwest 2022

U.S. Israel partnership established to transform cybersecurity solutions

BARD Graduate Student Fellowship

A great exchange opportunity is introduced to promote collaboration between Israel and the US. The BARD Graduate Student Fellowship provides funds to enable Ph.D. students in one country (the United States or Israel) to travel to the other country (Israel or the United States) in order to acquire new skills and techniques in their field of study. The award period is 2 to 6 months. The award amount is $1,500 per month and $2,000 to cover travel costs. The submission date is yearly, by mid-January.

U.S. Israel partnership established to transform cybersecurity solutions

Received the Credentials to Access Arava's Monitoring System

U.S. Israel partnership established to transform cybersecurity solutions

Connection built between the Consortium and EIFO

U.S. Israel partnership established to transform cybersecurity solutions

Potential Collaboration between the Consortium and Campion-ES proposed by OTORIO

U.S. Israel partnership established to transform cybersecurity solutions

Project Meeting Between GIT, RAD, and Meptagon

An updated schematic of how the RAD gateway will collect data from the Meptagon's physical (Pneumatic) system, and forward to Georgia Tech for analysis is discussed in the meeting. A doc of SIGA's capabilities is shared.

U.S. Israel partnership established to transform cybersecurity solutions

Call for Industry Advisory Board Members [Still Open]

Resource-Innovation is working to establish an Industry Advisory Board (IAB) for the ongoing Comprehensive Cybersecurity Technology for Critical Power Infrastructure AI-Based Centralized Defence and Edge Resilience project. The purpose of the IAB is to determine from an industry perspective if we are on the best path with our efforts, obtain advice on commercialization, and find early adopters for our technology. A few IAB meetings will be scheduled each year.

U.S. Israel partnership established to transform cybersecurity solutions

Connection Built between the Consortium and INPRESEC

U.S. Israel partnership established to transform cybersecurity solutions

Meeting Between Resource-Innovation, OTORIO, and ASU

U.S. Israel partnership established to transform cybersecurity solutions

Communication Established Between GIT and RAD

The meeting talks about LAB setup and interface. Meptagon Lab is discussed to be an alternative simulation lab.

U.S. Israel partnership established to transform cybersecurity solutions

Introduction to the SEL Real-Time Automation Controller (RTAC)

An introductory training for the RTAC product and associated software is given. Professors and students from BGU, ASU, and GIT joined the event for learning.

U.S. Israel partnership established to transform cybersecurity solutions

SEL Device Training

Professors and students from BGU, ASU, and GIT joined the event for learning.

U.S. Israel partnership established to transform cybersecurity solutions

Delek US Dataset Shared Within the Consortium

U.S. Israel partnership established to transform cybersecurity solutions

OPAL-RT Device arrived at ASU

U.S. Israel partnership established to transform cybersecurity solutions

The CEO of BIRD Foundation visit ASU

U.S. Israel partnership established to transform cybersecurity solutions

DLC Data shared within Consortium

U.S. Israel partnership established to transform cybersecurity solutions

Connection established between Consortium and Delek US

BIRD-ICRDE management team met Delek US program manager for the cyber consortium.

U.S. Israel partnership established to transform cybersecurity solutions

RAM² Deployment in ASU

OTORIO provided training for RAM² deployment in ASU.

U.S. Israel partnership established to transform cybersecurity solutions

Use Case Discussion between BGU, OTORIO, and Arava Power

During the meeting, Matan (OTORIO) presented a nice tab describing the expected OTORIO's use case for Task 3.

U.S. Israel partnership established to transform cybersecurity solutions

U.S. Israel partnership established to transform cybersecurity solutions

Assistant Professor Yang Weng takes the lead on a new energy consortium.