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SPHERE CPS Enclave: A Reconfigurable Testbed for Industrial Control System Security Experimentation

Year: 2025

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: Cyber-physical systems (CPS) increasingly face security threats that can disrupt critical infrastructure operations. The SPHERE CPS enclave is a modular, remotely accessible industrial control system (ICS) testbed designed to support security experimentation on programmable logic controllers (PLCs), industrial networks, and digital twin simulations. It enables researchers to investigate cyber-physical attacks, anomaly detection, and intrusion resilience strategies. Unlike general cybersecurity testbeds, SPHERE's CPS enclave provides a configurable, realistic environment for studying adversarial scenarios that bridge cyber and physical domains. The infrastructure offers controlled, reproducible experiments with customizable network topologies and hardware-in-the-loop validation. This poster presents the design philosophy, community-driven experimental goals, and deployment considerations of the SPHERE CPS enclave, demonstrating its potential for advancing CPS security research.

Source: ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS)

DOI: 10.1145/3716550.3725158