Resilience in Critical Infrastructures: The Role of Modelling and Simulation

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.

Cross-Border Cyber-Attacks and Critical Infrastructure Protection

International Journal of Information Security and Cybercrime ◽

10.19107/ijisc.2017.02.07 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

pp. 47-52

Author(s):

Iulian Marius COMAN

Keyword(s):

Critical Infrastructure ◽

Cyber Attacks ◽

Cross Border

Networks, Security and Complexity: The Role of Public Policy in Critical Infrastructure Protection - By Sean P. Gorman

Growth and Change ◽

10.1111/j.1468-2257.2008.00439.x ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 39 (3) ◽

pp. 526-529

Author(s):

Val Noronha

Keyword(s):

Public Policy ◽

Critical Infrastructure ◽

Infrastructure Protection

Reinforcing the First Line of Defense: The Role of the National Guard in Critical Infrastructure Protection (CSL Issue Paper, Volume 12-05, August 2005)

10.21236/ada439253 ◽

2005 ◽

Author(s):

Bert B. Tussing ◽

James O. Kievit ◽

Richard W. Dillon

Keyword(s):

Critical Infrastructure ◽

National Guard ◽

First Line ◽

Infrastructure Protection

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

10.20944/preprints202005.0213.v1 ◽

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 ◽

Worst Case ◽

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.

Understanding Complex Systems - Networks of Networks: The Last Frontier of Complexity ◽

Federated Modelling and Simulation for Critical Infrastructure Protection

10.1007/978-3-319-03518-5_11 ◽

2014 ◽

pp. 225-253 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Erich Rome ◽

Peter Langeslag ◽

Andrij Usov

Keyword(s):

Critical Infrastructure ◽

Modelling And Simulation ◽

Infrastructure Protection

POLICE AND CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION

Scientific Journal of the Military University of Land Forces ◽

10.5604/01.3001.0002.3052 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 161 (3) ◽

pp. 143-162

Author(s):

Agata TYBURSKA

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Public Administration ◽

Critical Infrastructure ◽

Public Order ◽

Protective Measures ◽

New Look

Police is an organization mainly identified as the authority responsible for public order and safety. Providing the country with the appropriate level of security requires a new look at the role of the authorities, including the police, involved in security matters. New, so far non-existing threats result from human dependence upon scientific and technological achievements. Efficient sectors such as energy, fuel, transportation, telecommunications, finance, health care, or any other sector ensuring continuity of public administration bodies, make our lives easier but at the same time pose a great threat to public order and safety. Additional threats result from interdependencies among elements of particular sectors, which we remain unaware of. The provision of relevant protective measures and identification of tasks assigned to the authorities involved in security pose a challenge not only to services and guards, but also to enterprises and public administration bodies involved in the development of regulations related to critical infrastructure protection as well as those which introduce regulations, guidelines or procedures.