TEK4560 – Basic Security in Cyber-Physical Systems

This course will introduce you to the cybersecurity challenges of CPSs and to systematic approaches to improve the security and resilience of such systems. After completing the course, you will have knowledge in the following topics:

• Background on Information and Cyber Security
• Cyber-Physical Systems and their characteristics
• Security and Privacy Concerns in CPSs•CPSs Cyber Security History and Threats
• Attacks against CPSs (Real-World Attacks Against CPSs)
• Preventing, Detecting, Mitigating Attacks against CPSs
• Risk assessment for CPSs
• Combined safety and security analysis of CPSs
• Industry Practices and Standards
• CPS Security in specific domains: Industrial Control Systems, Electric Power Grids, Maritime Systems, Transportation Systems and Autonomous Vehicles, Robotics and Advanced Manufacturing, Medical Devices.

Students admitted at UiO must apply for courses in Studentweb.

Nordic citizens and applicants residing in the Nordic countries may apply to take this course as a single course student. If you are not already enrolled as a student at UiO, please see our information about admission requirements and procedures for international applicants.

This course has a limited capacity, and students will be prioritised in the following order:

1. Students admitted to the master's programme Informatics: Information Security, programme option Security in Cyber-Physical Systems
2. Students admitted to the master's programme in Informatics: Information Security, programme option Information Security
3. Students on other master's programmes at UiO with the course on their approved study plan
4. Other students

Applicants are ranked based on credits in each group. All applicants within group 1 are ranked before applicants falling within group 2, and so on. For students with the same number of credits within each group, admission is determined through a random draw.

3 hours of teaching per week throughout the semester.

This course has mandatory exercises that must be approved before you can sit the final exam.

The course lectures are given at Department of Technology Systems in Kjeller Research Park. See the schedule for the student bus from Campus Blindern.

• A final oral exam counts 100% towards the final grade.
• With many candidates, examination may be conducted as a written exam.
• This course has mandatory exercises that must be approved before you can sit the final exam.

Students who can document a valid reason for absence from the regular examination are offered a postponed examination at the beginning of the next semester.

Re-scheduled examinations are not offered to students who withdraw during, or did not pass, the original examination.