[CSEE-colloq] talk: Cardenas on 'Securing Cyber-Physical Systems', 1pm Mon 3/26, ITE325 UMBC

[Tim Finin]

                    Securing Cyber-Physical Systems

                            Alvaro Cardenas
                    Fujitsu Laboratories of America

              1:00pm Monday 26 March 2012, ITE 325b, UMBC


Our critical infrastructure systems are being modernized with
information and communication technologies to face the operational
requirements and efficiency challenges of the 21st century. The smart
grid in particular, will introduce millions of new intelligent
components to the electric grid, buildings, and homes within the next
decade. While this modernization will bring many operational benefits
to infrastructure systems, it will also introduce new vulnerabilities,
a larger attack surface, and raise privacy concerns.

This presentation will be divided in three parts.  The first part of
the talk will cover the unique and fundamentally new challenges and
solutions required for securing cyber-physical systems.  The second
part of the talk will focus on new mechanisms for securing
cyber-physical systems. The final part of the talk will cover my other
research interests in intrusion detection and future plans for
big-data security.


Alvaro A. Cárdenas is a research staff engineer at Fujitsu
Laboratories of America. Prior to this he was a postdoctoral fellow at
the University of California, Berkeley working in securing critical
infrastructure systems.  His research focuses on network security, the
smart grid and other cyber-physical systems, intrusion detection and
big data security. He has received numerous awards for his research
including a best paper award from the U.S. Army Research Office, a
best presentation award from the IEEE, a fellowship from the
University of Maryland, and a Distinguished Assistantship from the
Institute of Systems Research. He has also been an invited visiting
professor at the University of Cagliari.  Alvaro holds M.S. and
Ph.D. degrees from the University of Maryland, College Park, and a
B.S. from Universidad de los Andes.

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