Developing a Cyber Twin Testbed (CTT) as a Service for Risk-based Assessment in Port Operations

The primary aim of this pilot project is to develop a Cyber Twin Testbed (CTT) to conduct a risk-based assessment for cybersecurity and resiliency of critical operations in ports considering the complexity of their environments and industry trends for using new emerging 4IR technologies.
The Cyber Twin Testbed (CTT)will:
1. allow a physical infrastructure and critical operations from the specially designed and developed miniature physical port and terminal models to be mirrored as cyber twin in the virtual environment, using simulation, emulation, and technologies such as predictive analytics, AI and ML.
2. allow a virtual representation of a port systems throughout its entire life-cycle for different scenario planning and testing, risk-based predictive analysis, learning and improving cyber resilience at the port different operational levels.
3. provide a capability to test cybersecurity vulnerabilities in port operations using the data collected from the port infrastructure, physical assets and processes events and detect abnormal behaviour using industrial equipment, protocols, standards and software.
The CTT will be developed at Flinders University and intended to be available for use by industry partners, a vendor and research groups from two South Australian universities.

Participants will benefit from this research as the CTT design and industrial equipment to be tested and analyzed to uncover a port critical operations cybersecurity vulnerability in return for (i) research findings and (ii) key information for future research and development.