scholarly journals Methodological foundations of security management information support of regional critical infrastructures

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (5-2021) ◽  
pp. 157-160
Author(s):  
Vladimir A. Putilov ◽  
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Andrey V. Masloboev ◽  
Vitaliy V. Bystrov ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Critical Infrastructure ◽  
Economic Security ◽  
Information Support ◽  
Regional Security ◽  
Critical Infrastructures ◽  
Economic Systems ◽  
Management Information ◽  
Infrastructure Resilience ◽  
Security Network

The unified methodological basis of information and analytical support of socio-economic security network-centric control in the region is proposed. The problem of regional security support is discussed at the level of risk-management of critical infrastructure resilience violation of the socio-economic systems. The methodology and tools for its implementation are aimed to information and analytical support of situational centers functioning in the region.

Decision Support System on Social Stability Governance Based on Scenario Approach

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2.28) ◽  
pp. 240
Author(s):  
V L. Schultz ◽  
V V. Kulba ◽  
Z K. Avdeeva ◽  
A B. Shelkov ◽  
I V. Chernov
Keyword(s):  
Information Support ◽  
Regional Security ◽  
Economic Systems ◽  
Social Stability ◽  
Medium Term ◽  
Social Sphere ◽  
The Social ◽  
Alternative Scenarios ◽  
Governance Processes ◽  
Scenario Approach

In modern conditions, it is necessary to organize effective information support for governance processes ensuring social stability on the basis of a comprehensive outpacing analysis of threats to regional security and sources of vulnerability of socio-economic systems, mechanisms to reduce uncertainty in the preparation and implementation of strategic and medium-term governance decisions, and improve their effectiveness in relation to the changing situations and in the external environment. The results presented in this paper are an evolution of the methodology of scenario analysis in the direction of developing formalized methods for analyzing and synthesizing alternative scenarios for the development of the situation in the social sphere and the means of supporting them.  

scholarly journals Toolkit for resilience assessment of critical infrastructures to earthquake induced soil liquefaction disasters

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariantonietta Morga ◽  
Keith Jones
Keyword(s):  
Critical Infrastructure ◽  
Soil Liquefaction ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Critical Infrastructures ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
The Social ◽  
Systematic Methodology ◽  
Infrastructure Resilience ◽  
Operational Capacity

<p>The critical infrastructure resilience depends on several factors that go beyond the physical reliability and capacity to repair the system after a disruption. The overall critical infrastructure resilience includes aspects related to the social and economic backbone governing its capacity to deliver its service. This contribution presents a theoretical toolkit to calculate the overall resilience of critical infrastructures developed within the European project LIQUEFACT for earthquake- induced soil liquefaction disasters. The toolkit combine several aspects organized in three dimensions: organizational and management, the physical or technical system and operational capacity to deliver the service. The toolkit clearly defines also resilience aspects, such as preparedness, absorption, recovery and adaptation. For each dimension and aspect of the resilience several indicators are developed. A critical and technical explanation of each indicator is here proposed, as well a systematic methodology to combine them in the resilience toolkit. The novelty of this study is the systematic analysis of dimensions, aspects and indicators that made the proposed resilience toolkit original. The study is concluded with analyses of feasibility of the toolkit to natural disasters and applicability to localized disasters, such as earthquake-induced soil liquefaction events. Finally, the key factors of toolkit influencing a built asset model of critical infrastructures are identified.</p>

scholarly journals Water infrastructure and economic security of regional socio-economic systems: evidence from Ukraine

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 166-179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Svitlana Fedulova ◽  
Oleksandr Pivovarov ◽  
Veronika Khudolei ◽  
Vitalina Komirna ◽  
Andrii Kalynovskyi
Keyword(s):  
Economic System ◽  
Critical Infrastructure ◽  
Water Security ◽  
Economic Security ◽  
Security System ◽  
Economic Systems ◽  
Water Infrastructure ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Impact

The correlation between the development of a regional economy and the degree of infrastructural development of a country or its territory is a common practice. Considering this, the paper is aimed at studying the impact of water infrastructure on the economic security of regional socio-economic systems in order to develop a water security system for them. A variety of threats against key waterworks can seriously undermine the national economy and water security of regions and cities. Thus, the study analyzes the process of transformation of water infrastructure in the context of ensuring the economic security of regional socio-economic systems. It offers the definition of such categories as “water infrastructure” and “water security of a regional socio-economic system” to formulate a relevant economic policy in Ukraine based on world experience. The study proves the need to attribute water infrastructure to the critical infrastructure sectors of Ukraine and its regions, based on the best world practices in managing water resources and protecting the water infrastructure itself from technogenic, physical, and cyber-physical threats. According to the study results, conceptual bases for ensuring the economic security of regional socio-economic systems are developed, which differ in view of the water security system of the regional socio-economic system, giving priority to the engineering and technical infrastructure of a region.

scholarly journals Understanding the Challenge of Cybersecurity in Critical Infrastructure Sectors

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-75
Author(s):  
Maurice Dawson ◽  
Robert Bacius ◽  
Luis Borges Gouveia ◽  
Andreas Vassilakos
Keyword(s):  
Homeland Security ◽  
Critical Infrastructure ◽  
National Policy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Economic Security ◽  
Critical Infrastructures ◽  
Department Of Homeland Security ◽  
Cyber Espionage ◽  
Resilient Infrastructure ◽  
American Society

AbstractThe cybersecurity of critical infrastructures is an essential topic within national and international security as 16 critical infrastructure sectors touch various aspects of American society. Because the failure to provide adequate cybersecurity controls within the critical infrastructure sectors renders the country open to an attack that could have a debilitating effect on security, national public health, safety, and economic security, this matter is so vital that there is the Presidential Policy Directive (PPD) 21 Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience advances a national policy to strengthen and maintain secure, functioning and resilient critical infrastructure. An organization identified as the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has the mission to be the risk advisor for the United States (US). Other organizations, such as the National Security Agency (NSA), have approved a specific Knowledge Unit (KU) to address cybersecurity for critical infrastructures associated with doctoral-level granting programs. To address this challenge, it is necessary to identify threats better and defend against them while mitigating risks to an acceptable level. Only then can a nation build a more secure and resilient infrastructure for the future while defending against present-day bad actors as cyberwarfare, cyber espionage, and cybersecurity attacks are the modern-day threats that need to be addressed in planning, designing, implementation, and maintenance. Therefore, the researchers developed a case study reviewing threats against different sectors defined in the PPD.

scholarly journals Resilience of critical infrastructure of regional security

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (5-2021) ◽  
pp. 104-116
Author(s):  
Darya N. Khaliullina ◽  
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Vitaliy V. Bystrov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Complex Systems ◽  
Critical Infrastructure ◽  
Security Management ◽  
Security System ◽  
Regional Security ◽  
Critical Infrastructures ◽  
Problem Statement ◽  
Theoretical Issues

The article is devoted to the development of the concept of regional security management based on the principles of ensuring the resilience of critical infrastructures. The article is a problem statement and considers general theoretical issues in the field of resilience of complex systems. The authors identify two main approaches to the model of representation of the regional security system from the perspective of ensuring its resilience.

Information technology for management support of socio-economic security

2018 ◽  
pp. 88-98
Author(s):  
A. V. Masloboev
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Conceptual Modeling ◽  
Simulation Models ◽  
Economic Security ◽  
Information Support ◽  
Regional Security ◽  
System Control ◽  
Management Support ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Modern Information Technology

The issues related to computer aids development for management information support in the field of regional security are discussed. A modern information technology for management life-cycle support of socio-economic security has been developed. The technology is based on complex system control theory, conceptual modeling, system dynamics and project management methods implementation. That provides simulation models automated synthesis to the aim of possible negative effects analysis of project implementation influencing on the state of socio-economic security, and on the basis of simulation results analytical information generation for a set of counteraction measures development corresponding to identified regional security threats.

scholarly journals Business Continuity for Critical Infrastructure Operators

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Harri Ruoslahti
Keyword(s):  
Adverse Events ◽  
Critical Infrastructure ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Business Continuity ◽  
Critical Infrastructures ◽  
Open Communication ◽  
Infrastructure Resilience

Critical infrastructures often lack resilience and easily lose critical functionalities if hit by adverse events. Continuity management strategies for critical infrastructure operators and the networks that they form, rely also on the functionality of other interrelated networks. Disruptions in operations may affect society and for this reason, securing the operations of critical infrastructure operators is important. The technological impacts of CPS become evident to the resilience of all fields of critical infrastructure, but there is also human elements to take into account. The research question of this study is: How to enhance business continuity of critical infrastructure? This case study research uses qualitative methods collected by conducting interviews of resilience and continuity professionals who work with Finnish critical infrastructure. Resilience and continuity management are key for critical infrastructure operators. Important factors identified were identifying risks, critical activities, key personnel, creating guidelines and procedures, and open communication, which themes were recognised as important to improve resilience and manage continuity.

scholarly journals Digital Twin conceptual framework for improving critical infrastructure resilience

2021 ◽  
Vol 69 (12) ◽  
pp. 1062-1080
Author(s):  
Eva Brucherseifer ◽  
Hanno Winter ◽  
Andrea Mentges ◽  
Max Mühlhäuser ◽  
Martin Hellmann
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Critical Infrastructure ◽  
High Availability ◽  
Critical Infrastructures ◽  
Digital Twin ◽  
The Past ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Major Incidents ◽  
Infrastructure Resilience ◽  
Resilience Capabilities

Abstract Critical infrastructures are the backbone of our societies with increasingly complex and networked characteristics and high availability demands. This makes them vulnerable to a wide range of threats that can lead to major incidents. Resilience is a concept that describes a system’s ability to absorb and respond to disturbances, as well as to learn from the past and anticipate new threats. In this article, we apply the Digital Twin concept to the infrastructure domain to improve the system’s resilience capabilities. We conduct a comprehensive requirements analysis related to infrastructure characteristics, crisis management and resilience measures. As a result, we propose a Digital Twin Conceptual Framework for critical infrastructures. We conclude that the Digital Twin paradigm is well suited to enhance critical infrastructure resilience.

Infrastructures of Cyber Warfare

2011 ◽  
pp. 35-41
Author(s):  
Robert S. Owen
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Critical Infrastructure ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Emerging Technology ◽  
Economic Security ◽  
Economic Damage ◽  
Critical Infrastructures ◽  
Cyber Warfare ◽  
Worldwide Network

Discussions of cyber warfare tend to focus on weakening or disrupting a physical critical core infrastructure. Critical infrastructures are systems and assets that if destroyed, would have an impact on physical security, economic security, and/or public health or safety. Some have argued that meaningful, sustainable damage to critical infrastructures is unlikely through cyber warfare tactics. However, damage to non-critical infrastructures could inflict considerable economic damage and could cause an existing or emerging technology to lose acceptance in a targeted region or society. War planners with goals of economic damage or decreased quality of life could achieve these ends at relatively low cost without attempts to physically attack the critical infrastructure itself. Much of the work to carry out attacks on non-critical infrastructures could be done by a worldwide network of volunteers who might not even be aware of the motivations of the war planners or cyber terrorists. Non critical infrastructures that are vulnerable to damage are outlined and discussed. Greater concern for and attention to the vulnerabilities of these non-critical infrastructures is advocated.

scholarly journals The role of Bulgarian institutions in the maritime critical infrastructure resilience

2019 ◽  
Vol XXII (1) ◽  
pp. 343-350
Author(s):  
Dimitrov N.
Keyword(s):  
Complex System ◽  
Critical Infrastructure ◽  
Critical Infrastructures ◽  
Local Institutions ◽  
Government Responsibility ◽  
Local Character ◽  
Infrastructure Resilience ◽  
State And Local ◽  
Private Actors

The author considers the maritime critical infrastructures resilience as a government responsibility for protection and service continuation and is carried out by the joint efforts of infrastructures operators, state and local institutions, and private actors shaped in a complex system. He gives reasons for the exactly type of the system based on local character of incidents and having common management and separated responsibilities.

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