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Written on 08.04.25 by Nils Ole Tippenhauer

Dear students in CPSS'25,

we will start with the first lecture this Friday 11.4. at 14.15 (sharp). Lecture location is the lecture hall at CISPA (E9.1 on campus, Stuhlsatzenhaus 5). I will generally also livestream to zoom (link in material collection). As this will be the first lecture, I'll introduce the lecture format and planned content for this year, and will also check with you on preferred content from your side. I plan to record lectures in this class and to put them on Youtube afterwards, but please be aware that those recordings are not guaranteed as they may fail due to various technical issues. Please make sure to attend the lecture!

I also activated the askbot extension, please feel free to use it to ask questions that a) could be answered by other students, or b) can be answered by me and might be of interest for other students.

Hope to see you all on Friday,
Nils

Cyber-Physical Systems Security

The lecture will take place every Friday from 14.15-15.45pm, starting April 11. It will be taught by Nils Ole Tippenhauer. Roughly the first half will focus on drones and their security and the second half will focus on general Cyber-Physical Systems/ Industrial Control Systems security. We currently plan to have a mix of interactive lectures via Zoom, and prepared videos. In addition, there will be practical exercises using Linux w/ ArduPilot and other tools.

This lecture is an advanced lecture. Previous knowledge from CySec1 and CySec2 (or Security) is recommended. If you took my advanced lecture Physical-Layer Security in the past, you CANNOT take this course, as there are significant overlaps. While the lecture will touch physical-layer concepts such as (wireless) signals, no background in that area is assumed. The lecture will cover thee main topic areas: attacks (and countermeasures) that leverage physical channels (e.g., side-channel attacks), attacks (and countermeasures) involving control systems (e.g., drones, evasion attacks, monitoring systems), and security for cyber-physical systems (such as industrial control systems).

The lecture will be complemented by 6 exercises. Due to related effort, this course can only accommodate up to 40 students.

There will be a final written examination with no second backup slot. The exam date is TBD at 10am in the CISPA Bernd Therre lecture hall (0.05 in E9.1).