Overview: The CyManII Approach

CyManII’s approach is to use a clean slate to design a future-state based on state-of-the-art physical system design.

CyManII’s intelligent transformation is critical if the United States is to be the global leader in manufacturing. Combining physical, cyber, and energy layers in legacy and new systems of manufacturing, this intelligent transformation requires starting with a pervasive, unobtrusive, resilient, and economical (ε-PURE) secure manufacturing architecture.

What CyManII Does

To benefit the United States, CyManII will cybersecure U.S. manufacturers and their supply chains against nation-state adversaries and other cybercriminals; introduce a financial incentive to justify manufacturers investment in this secure manufacturing architecture; secure one quad of energy (approximately 1% of the annual U.S. energy budget and returning over $20B to manufacturers); detect and mitigate up to 1T cyber vulnerability instances; modernize the American work force for cyber and energy dominant manufacturing; and train the next generation of manufacturers in cybersecurity for intelligent and energy dominant manufacturing.

Benefits

These benefits will secure and sustain U.S. leadership in global manufacturing competitiveness for our current and future decades. Via our ε-PURE secure manufacturing architecture, CyManII also introduces a novel ε-ROI for companies to implement a secure measurement and verification across the nation’s automated manufacturing operations and their supply chains. By introducing a system-by-system design for manufacturing systems and supply chains, CyManII will introduce cybersecurity that yields ROI which would allow CyManII to:

Innovate before competitors
Secure U.S. manufactures
Increase global competition

Maintain close connection with industry giants
Provide a common framework for secure manufacturing
Create a strong foundation for research and innovation

Promote a culture of trust and proactive education, training and support for all stakeholders

CyManII is on the path toward establishing expectations for quality security that will be followed and highly respected by OEMs, SMMs, OTs and integrators to help them achieve secure energy savings by overcoming common barriers and re-establish the United States as a proactive global innovator for manufacturing, cybersecurity and energy dominance; attaining cyber innovation to secure U.S. manufacturing.

Lead Institution

The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) is home to one of the nation’s top cybersecurity programs, an interdisciplinary approach that spans three colleges: the College of Business, College of Engineering and College of Sciences, and has attracted world-class faculty and a reputation as the undisputed leader in cybersecurity education.

With three cyber-focused research centers – the Center for Infrastructure Assurance and Security, the Institute for Cyber Security and the Cyber Center for Security and Analytics – and with close cross-collaborations with the Open Cloud Institute (OCI) and the Texas Energy Research Institute, which aims to address global security challenges encountered by individuals, industry, government and the military. The university’s research specialties include information security management and strategy, applied network and information systems security, government and industry cyber preparedness, and secure software and hardware design and engineering.

UTSA has also launched its $100M investment in this ecosystem via the National Security Collaboration Center (NSCC) in the heart of downtown San Antonio.

Overview: The CyManII Approach

What CyManII Does

Benefits

Lead Institution

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