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.