I was invited to put on an hour-long workshop on cyber as part of a STEM weekend program for high school students. Unfortunately, I didn’t have access to a lot of resources to make this completely hands-on for them, but I had an interesting idea that I wanted to try out. I presented them with the following scenario:
Our friends at Navy have given us a challenge. They have vault, represented by the box I made, that contains something really valuable. We currently have no way to get access, but our intel team has provided us with one piece of info: there is some kind of industrial control system (ICS) that’s in charge of giant vault door.
I have the students walk me through how they’d go about finding more information about the structure. Some tell me that they’d try to break the door down, but I inform them that the vault door is made of unobtanium and is resistant to any physical attack.
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I used a Beaglebone Black as my ICS machine and connected it to a small servo to control the opening of the door. The vault is made of fiberboard. Lots of credit goes to Ed Skoudis for the inspiration from his CyberCity project.
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