Careers in Technology Summer Series 2024 - Arun Vishwanathan - Model-based Approaches for Cyber Risk Assessment of Space Missions

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Space assets such as satellites, drones and spacecraft are increasingly attractive targets for adversaries ranging from individual hackers, to hacker groups and nation states. This rapid rise in the cyber threat landscape necessitates smarter cyber tools to stay ahead of our adversaries. In this talk, I will present the work being done by the Cyber Defense Engineering and Research (CDER) group at JPL in addressing cyber challenges as pertaining to JPL’s missions. I will specifically focus on our work combining model-based engineering and AI-based reasoning to build a unique capability for automated cyber risk assessments.


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  • Date: 23 Jul 2024
  • Time: 07:00 PM to 08:00 PM
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  • Starts 10 June 2024 12:00 AM
  • Ends 23 July 2024 12:00 AM
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Dr. Arun Vishwanathan of JPL, NASA

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Model-based Approaches for Cyber Risk Assessment of Space Missions

Dr. Arun Viswanathan is a senior cyber security researcher and leads the Cyber Defense Engineering and Research group at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. His work at JPL is primarily concerned with making mission-critical capabilities cyber resilient, with an emphasis on building cybersecurity solutions that can be deployed in operational environments such as spacecraft, spacecraft ground data systems, and autonomous systems. He has led teams on several cybersecurity projects within JPL, with the DoE, NSA and various industry partners and has published in premier cybersecurity venues about cyber situational awareness, model-based cyber risk assessment, AI techniques for cybersecurity, and security of autonomous and intelligent systems. He is a senior member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), and chair of the Aerospace Cybersecurity Working Group (ACWG). He also participates in the development of the international IEEE standard on space systems cybersecurity as chair of the ground segment subgroup. Prior to JPL, Arun received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California, where he explored model-driven approaches for cyber situational awareness and explored the impact of cyber-attacks on the Smart Grid.

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