| Semester | Winter 2025 |
| Course type | Block Seminar |
| Lecturer | Prof. Dr. Wressnegger, Dr. Erba |
| Audience | Informatik Master & Bachelor |
| Credits | 4 ECTS |
| Room | 148, Building 50.34 |
| Language | English |
| Link | TBA |
| Registration | TBA |
The growing integration of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) into critical infrastructure, industrial manufacturing, and everyday life has brought new security challenges. This seminar will explore the unique security risks and vulnerabilities associated with CPS, where the intersection of physical processes and computational components creates complex threat landscapes. Attendees will focus on offensive and defensive techniques in CPS security across its entire architecture. The topics will cover sectors such as energy, manufacturing, and transportation.
The module introduces students to the field of attacks and defenses against CPS and teaches them to work up results from recent research. To this end, the students will read up on a sub-field, prepare a seminar report, and present their work at the end of the term to their colleagues.
Topics include but are not limited to attacks and defenses for Industrial Control Systems, Power Grid, Autonomous Driving, and Drones.
| Date | Step |
| Mon, 27. Oct, 14:00–15:30 | Kick-off & Topic presentation |
| Wed, 29. Oct, 11:59 (noon) | Send topic selection(assignment happens till 15:00) |
| Thu, 30. Oct, 11:59 (noon) | Officially register for assigned topic (missed opportunities will be reassigned to waiting list till 15:00) |
| Mon, 03. Nov, 14:00–15:30 | Optional unit on "How to Ace the Seminar" |
| Tue, 04. Nov | Arrange appointments with assistant |
| Mon, 17. Nov - Tue, 18. Nov | 1st individual meeting (Provide first overview and ToC) |
| Mon, 15. Dec - Tue, 16. Dec | 2nd individual meeting (Feedback on draft report) |
| Mo, 12. Jan | Submit final paper |
| Mon, 26. Jan | Submit review for fellow students |
| Tue, 27. Jan, 10:00–14:00 | PC discussion meeting |
| Tue, 10. Feb | Submit camera-ready version of your paper |
| Thu, 19. Feb, 11:30–17:15 | Presentation at final colloquium |
News about the seminar, potential updates to the schedule, and additional material are distributed using the course's matrix room. Moreover, matrix enables students to discuss seminar related topics.
You find the link to the matrix room on ILIAS.
Every student may choose one of the following topics. For each of these, we additionally provide recent top-tier publications that serve as the basis for the seminar report. For the seminar and your final report, you should not merely summarize these papers, but try to go beyond and arrive at your own conclusions. Chapter 19 "Cyber-Physical Systems Security" of the The Cyber Security Body of Knowledge is the prerequisite for the seminar.