Senior Design Team sdmay21-50 • CySec-Game Cyber Risk Assessment Tool using Game Theory

Critical infrastructure like power and energy systems are often vulnerable to cyber attacks. Mitigating cyber risk to critical infrastructure is an important part of the design and maintenance of these systems. These power and energy systems commonly use legacy devices where complete upgrades are uneconomical, therefore, risk assessment plays an important role in selectively securing vulnerable or high-risk assets.

The goal of this project is to develop a software tool that helps the critical infrastructure industry to assess cyber risks to power and energy systems and to optimally allocate cybersecurity investments to mitigate the risks. This tool will use game theory models to identify high-risk targets and will directly interface with the PowerCyber testbed for cyber-physical risk assessment and mitigation.