Cybersecurity for Additive Manufacturing

Catalog description

This course explores the intersection of cybersecurity and additive manufacturing (AM by examining information security, information assurance, design, fabrication, and industrial security to defend AM from emergent threats using current research literature, theory and practical analysis of data and analyses, and provides general methodologies to address cybersecurity principles across a digital manufacturing enterprise. Students will examine networks, quantify assets on the network, determine attack perimeters and vulnerabilities using commonly available network and cybersecurity tools, all while using the theme of advanced manufacturing technologies. Students will analyze current, known attacks and exfiltration of data and how best cyber practices can help secure and defend the relevant data. Students will recognize how different modalities of sensing and machine parameters can be manipulated to cause harm to the part, the printer, and the process. The course will follow issues concerning intellectual property of the digital manufacturing paradigm; case studies on techniques for attacking and defending design intent; and review recent literature on cyber security within the AM process.