Florida Institute for Cybersecurity Presents: Distinguished Institute Lecture by Dongyan Xu of Purdue

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Dongyan Xu is the Samuel Conte Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS) at Purdue University. His current research interests include computer systems security and cyber-physical security, especially in the domains of autonomous vehicles, industrial control systems, and supply chain networks. He has received multiple awards from major cybersecurity conferences for his research papers on kernel malware defense, memory forensics, advanced persistent threat (APT) analytics, and IoT/CPS vulnerability mitigation.
He will be presenting a lecture entitled “Towards a Cross-Plane Methodology for Cyber-Physical Security”. The landscape of cybersecurity has undergone significant changes in the past decade, with its coverage expanding from “cyber-only” systems such as compute job execution, web services, and mobile apps, to “cyber-physical” systems such as smart grids, autonomous vehicles, and manufacturing systems. Today, any system with a cyber component faces threats from cyber attacks, calling for new security approaches and solutions to secure not just the cyber components (i.e., computers and networks), but the overall cyber-physical systems (CPS). I will discuss new challenges in cyber-physical security that did not exist in traditional computer security, as well as opportunities to secure CPS via an inter-disciplinary cross-plane (cyber and physical) methodology. I will also report our ongoing efforts in CPS vulnerability discovery and confirmation, as concrete instantiation of the cross-plane methodology. Please contact Moriah@ufl.edu for more information.