Ilan Shaya

The SIIRD test range

A joint Israel–Singapore R&D project to build a test environment for control systems.

What was done

A research and development project under the SIIRD, Singapore Israel Industrial Research & Development foundation, to build a test environment for control systems where attacks and defenses can be run under controlled conditions. The project was worth about 1.7 million dollars.

  • A lab environment for attacking and defending real control systems
  • Tools for querying controllers, stations and switches
  • R&D collaboration between Israel and Singapore
SSTP architecture: SCADA/ICS virtual appliance templates on VMware vRealize, vCenter and vSphere hosts, accessed by user groups over a remote console
The SSTP architecture: SCADA and ICS virtual appliances provisioned on demand for each user group.
A simulated 200 MW steam power plant: steam drum, superheater, turbines, generator, condenser and cooling tower, with live temperatures
A simulated 200 MW power plant inside the test range, the target of the attack-and-defense exercises.