Dynamic robustness modelling of electricity critical infrastructure elements as a part of energy security

This article presents a solution that strengthens information security in critical infrastructure entities. Critical infrastructure plays a key role in the functioning of the state and the life of its citizens. Therefore, the protection of critical infrastructure is one of priorities in Poland. The aim of this article is to show that designated postal operators may become an important link in the process of information flow and cybersecurity. Based on their multiple-year experience and expended competences, the operators may provide digital services for entities responsible for the energy security infrastructure. Verification of this goal is necessary, since critical infrastructure is exposed to growing threats, both in the area of energy and other sensitive sectors of the economy. Research results presented in the article were obtained by conducting a CATI survey. The study used the purposeful selection method, which allows to influence the structure of a sample in the context of goals set by the authors. The method solicited key information from experts on postal and energy markets. The results constitute a new approach to the role of the designated postal operator. The authors analysed possibilities to support entities that secure critical infrastructure, including those from the energy sector. It shows that the role of the designated postal operator may significantly change. Taking into account the security of information and cybersecurity, the postal operator could expand its competences, secure infrastructure-related information flow, and thus become a key pillar of the state.

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Integrated approach to energy security and critical infrastructure in Croatia

2009 6th International Conference on the European Energy Market ◽

10.1109/eem.2009.5207148 ◽

2009 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Z. Simic ◽

L. Lugaric ◽

S. Krajcar

Keyword(s):

Energy Security ◽

Critical Infrastructure ◽

Integrated Approach

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ENERGY SECURITY, RESILIENCE AND CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION: SPANISH PUERTOLLANO REFINERY CRISIS

Journal of Security and Sustainability Issues ◽

10.9770/jssi.2016.5.3(2) ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 5 (3) ◽

pp. 323-328 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Rafael José de Espona

Keyword(s):

Energy Security ◽

Critical Infrastructure ◽

Critical Infrastructure Protection ◽

Infrastructure Protection

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Smart, Secure and Safe Energy Management Approach – An Education Framework Improving the Competence Grid of the Professionals in the Energy Sector

International conference KNOWLEDGE-BASED ORGANIZATION ◽

10.2478/kbo-2019-0034 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 25 (1) ◽

pp. 213-218 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Miroslav Vergilov Dimitrov ◽

Nataliya Venelinova

Keyword(s):

Energy Management ◽

Energy Security ◽

Critical Infrastructure ◽

Smart Cities ◽

Security Management ◽

Integrated Approach ◽

Development Planning ◽

Energy Sector ◽

Management Approach ◽

Applied Fields

Abstract The paper presents evidence based brand new approach of the permanent rise of the competences and know-how transfer between researchers, teachers and professionals aiming to ensure the specific expertise of the human resources engaged in energy security management. The approach has a collaborative and integrative nature and relies on the hybridization between energy management, urban development planning, environmental management, civil protection, protection of critical infrastructure and the national security applied fields. The authors redefine the conventional understanding of the energy security by describing a practically oriented integrated approach of teaching energy security, based on 3 separately existing concepts: the concept for smart energy security grid, those for the smart cities and the standard operative procedures applied to energy security management. Smart, Secure and Safe Energy Management (3SEMA) is both behaviorally and technically oriented and presented in a circular chart, involving all actors on certain territory with the purpose to apply smart, secure and safe approach in governing the energy sector, taking into consideration the dynamic technological changes and the concept of intelligent urban use.

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Composed Index for the Evaluation of Energy Security in Power Systems within the frame of Energy Transitions – The case of Latin America and the Caribbean

10.20944/preprints202103.0183.v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Sergio Fuentes ◽

Roberto Villafafila-Robles ◽

Joan Rull-Duran ◽

Samuel Galceran-Arellano

Keyword(s):

Latin America ◽

Power Systems ◽

Power System ◽

Latin American ◽

Energy Security ◽

Critical Infrastructure ◽

Energy System ◽

Caribbean Region ◽

Energy Transitions ◽

The Caribbean

Energy transitions are reshaping the global energy system. Such shift has taken the power system to become a critical infrastructure for achieving economic development of every nation in the planet, therefore, guaranteeing its security is crucial, not only for energy purposes but as a part of a national security strategy. This paper presents a multi-dimensional index developed to assess energy security of electrical systems in the long term. This tool, named Power System Security Index (PSIx), and which has been previously used for the evaluation of a country in two different time frames, is applied to evaluate the member countries of the Latin American Energy Organization, located within the Latin America and the Caribbean region, in order to measure their performance on energy security. Mixed results were obtained from the analysis, with clear top performers in the region such as Argentina, while there are others with broad areas of opportunity, as it is the case of Haiti.

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Energy security in the age of digitalization

Courier of the Kutafin Moscow State Law University ◽

10.17803/2311-5998.2020.67.3.086-095 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 86-95

Author(s):

N. A. Molchanov ◽

E. K. Matevosova

Keyword(s):

Electric Power ◽

Information And Communication Technologies ◽

Energy Security ◽

Critical Infrastructure ◽

Electric Power Industry ◽

Communication Technologies ◽

Electric Power System ◽

Legal Documents ◽

Information And Communication ◽

The Impact

The article discusses modern problems of ensuring national and international energy security, related to the increasing threats in cyberspace. A cyberattack on the critical infrastructure of countries (electric power industry) is one of the tools of political pressure, causing significant indiscriminate damage that undermines statehood. Particular attention is paid to the risks of the impact of cyber technologies on the state’s electric power system. The authors formulate a conclusion about the need to intensify the process of international law‑making in fixing the legal boundaries of the use of information and communication technologies.An analysis of international legal documents, russian and foreign legal acts allows us to identify common for all countries challenges to energy security and the features of national approaches in the implementation energy policy, the main direction of which today is to ensure cybersecurity in the energy sector of the country’s economy.

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Securitized Referent Objects in Brazilian Defence Documents: Natural Resources, Critical Infrastructure and Energy Security

Contexto Internacional ◽

10.1590/s0102-8529.2019430100004 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 43 (1) ◽

pp. 77-98

Author(s):

Henry Iure de Paiva Silva ◽

Augusto W. M. Teixeira Júnior

Keyword(s):

Natural Resources ◽

Energy Security ◽

Critical Infrastructure ◽

Securitization Theory ◽

National Energy Security ◽

The Subject ◽

Defence Strategies ◽

Conceptual Foundations ◽

National Defence

Abstract How do Brazil’s defence documents incorporate natural resources and critical infrastructure as political and strategic components of the national energy security framework? After presenting the contemporary international landscape on the subject, which is marked by rising powers and geopolitics, the paper explains the theory and the conceptual foundations that support the claim of a securitization movement on natural resources and critical infrastructure that relates to energy security in response to the absence of existential threats to Brazil. Following this effort, the text reflects upon and analyses how the matter has developed from 2005 to 2016 in Brazilian defence policies and in national defence strategies. By applying securitization theory to the case study, the final remarks imply the need for a reflection on the importance of incorporating the geopolitics of natural resources and critical infrastructure related to energy security in defence thinking.

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