Facilities

The Bristol Cyber Security Group has a state-of-the-art, large scale testbed, providing a realistic environment for our research into cyber-physical systems security. It has been built from the ground up, based on extensive past experience of building ICS security testbeds and input from industry partners.

The testbed infrastructure includes:

• Multiple physical and virtual processes

  Including a water treatment plant, model factory and building management system, each within distinct, centrally managed field sites.
• Physical industrial control hardware

  Sourced from a number of vendors including the latest devices with the newest protocols.
• Fully-realised experimental network environment

  Covering both the IT and OT network environments, with comprehensive data capture abilities.
• Training and prototyping environment

  Comprehensive fully simulated environments and small scale physical testbeds.
• ICS training boxes

  Designed and built in-house.
• Remote field site with physical process

  Mobile and self-contained.
• Federated architecture

  Allowing for granular integration of remote testbed/control structures to enable large scale and diverse experimentation.
• Our own workshop

  Including 3D-print capabilities for rapid prototyping.
• Access to the electrical engineering workshop team

  For design and building of testbed infrastructure.
• Cyber Range

  Consisting of servers and networking equipment to host virtual machines, software & network simulators and traffic generators to enable a more realistic environment for modelling cyber attacks, countermeasures and digital twins as well as linking up with other facilities.

• Hardware-In-the-Loop

  Our Typhoon HIL 606 device enables us to model and control the whole power plant, while connecting to and testing our own controllers and protocols.
• Agritech testbed

  The first of its kind, exploring IIOT device security in agriculture with 3 main components: Herd management, Milking parlour, Ventilation.