Cross-Border Cyber-Attacks and Critical Infrastructure Protection

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-52
Author(s):  
Iulian Marius COMAN
Keyword(s):  
Critical Infrastructure ◽  
Cyber Attacks ◽  
Critical Infrastructure Protection ◽  
Infrastructure Protection ◽  
Cross Border

scholarly journals Construction Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Protection: Significance, Overlaps, and Proposed Action Plan

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Borja García de Soto ◽  
Alexandru Georgescu ◽  
Bharadwaj Mantha ◽  
Žiga Turk ◽  
Abel Maciel
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Critical Infrastructure ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Cyber Attacks ◽  
Economic Damage ◽  
Critical Infrastructure Protection ◽  
Worst Case ◽  
Infrastructure Protection ◽  
Digital Assets

The umbrella concept for the current efforts to digitize construction is known as Construction 4.0. One of its key concepts is cyber-physical systems. The construction industry is not only creating increasingly valuable digital assets (in addition to physical ones) but also the buildings and built infrastructures are increasingly monitored and controlled using digital technology. Both make construction a vulnerable target of cyber-attacks. While the damage to digital assets, such as designs and cost calculations, may result in economic damage, attacks on digitally-controlled physical assets may damage the well-being of occupants and, in worst-case scenarios, even damage (or death) to the users. The problem is amplified by the emerging cyber-physical nature of the systems, where the human checks may be left out. We propose that construction learns from the work done in the context of critical infrastructures (CI). First, a lot of CI is construction-related, and the process of designing and building it must be secured accordingly. Second, while most assets may not be critical in the CI sense, they are critical to the operations of a business and the lives of citizens. In the end, we recommend some steps so that well-established processes of critical infrastructure protection trickle down to make Construction 4.0 and the built environment more cyber-secure. With that in mind, we describe the possible inclusion of Construction 4.0 considerations into existing critical infrastructure protection (CIP) frameworks with minimum frictions. We also propose some suggestions regarding possible future courses of action to improve the increasingly vulnerable cyber-security environment of the built environment across all life cycle phases - design, construction, operation, maintenance, and end of life.

scholarly journals Resilience in Critical Infrastructures: The Role of Modelling and Simulation

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chiara Foglietta ◽  
Stefano Panzieri
Keyword(s):  
Critical Infrastructure ◽  
Telecommunication Network ◽  
Cyber Attacks ◽  
Modelling And Simulation ◽  
Critical Infrastructure Protection ◽  
Infrastructure Protection ◽  
Road Map ◽  
Infrastructure Interdependency ◽  
The Eu

Resilience and risk are fundamental concepts for critical infrastructure protection, but it is complex to assess them. Modelling critical infrastructure interdependency helps in evaluating the resilience and risk metrics. We propose the MHR approach as a road-map to model infrastructures and it is implemented using CISIApro 2.0. MHR suggests considering three different layers in each infrastructure: holistic, service and reductionist agents. In this chapter, this framework has been tested in a scenario made of a modern telecommunication network, a hospital ward and a smart factory. The scenario takes into account cyber attacks and their consequences on the components, services and holistic nodes. The proposed framework is under validation within the EU H2020 RESISTO project with good results and in various test-beds.

Passive and active training approaches for critical infrastructure protection

2021 ◽  
pp. 102461
Author(s):  
Luisa Franchina ◽  
Giulia Inzerilli ◽  
Enrico Scatto ◽  
Alessandro Calabrese ◽  
Andrea Lucariello ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Critical Infrastructure ◽  
Critical Infrastructure Protection ◽  
Infrastructure Protection ◽  
Active Training
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