Ramesh Karri and Farshad Khorrami, professors in the department of electrical and computer engineering at NYU Tandon, and Michail Maniatakos, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at NYU Abu Dhabi and NYU Tandon were involved in the tests featured in this article.
… There is evidence that nation-state attackers are already targeting power grids and other critical infrastructure. … Grid operators and government workers conduct frequent tabletop exercises to determine who would do what during a cyberattack, but those activities lack the depth and urgency of a real-world scenario and might not reveal problems in response plans, said Walter Weiss, the program manager for the Defense Department’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, who led the exercises.