SWaP: A Water Process Testbed for ICS Security Research

This paper presents the Security Water Processing (SWaP) testbed, an Industrial Control System (ICS) for security research and training. SWaP will be used to (a) assess the security of industrial protocols, (b) design and test the defense technologies, (c) assess the effectiveness of side channel based defenses, and (d) share the datasets with the security community. SWaP consists of a 3-stage water process, each stage is autonomously controlled by Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs). The local communications between sensors, actuators, and PLCs is realized through wired and wireless channels. All the details on the process layer, network layer and field layer are provided in this paper. The testbed is designed to be a resource to a wider research community and encourage collaborative research in the field of ICS security. We envision to make this resource available for practical work among the ICS security community. Towards that end, as a first step, we have collected and curated a dataset to be shared with the research community. Moreover, given the scarcity of attack/anomalous data; several attacks are designed and executed on the testbed, providing examples of attack data, which can further be used for model based and machine learning based security research.