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The Security of Big Data in Fog-Enabled IoT Applications Including Blockchain: A Survey Open
The proliferation of inter-connected devices in critical industries, such as healthcare and power grid, is changing the perception of what constitutes critical infrastructure. The rising interconnectedness of new critical industries is dri…
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Cyber security training for critical infrastructure protection: A literature review Open
Today, cyber-security curricula are available across educational types and levels, including a vast array of programs and modules tailored to specific sectors of industry and audiences, to allow more targeted delivery of knowledge. Nonethe…
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An Integrated Cyber Security Risk Management Approach for a Cyber-Physical System Open
A cyber-physical system (CPS) is a combination of physical system components with cyber capabilities that have a very tight interconnectivity. CPS is a widely used technology in many applications, including electric power systems, communic…
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Quantitative evaluation of the synergistic effects of failures in a critical infrastructure system Open
A critical infrastructure is a complicated system whose failure (in whole or in part) has a significant impact on national interests, including security, the economy and basic human needs. The system consists of relevant sectors, elements …
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Vulnerability assessment framework for interdependent critical infrastructures: case-study for Great Britain’s rail network Open
Critical infrastructures vulnerability assessment involves understanding various sociotechnological aspects of modern day infrastructures. While vulnerabilities exist at different scales, failures of large-scale installations in infrastruc…
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Disaster Management in Smart Cities Open
The smart city concept, in which data from different systems are available, contains a multitude of critical infrastructures. This data availability opens new research opportunities in the study of the interdependency between those critica…
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From Risk Management to Resilience Management in Critical Infrastructure Open
This article discusses critical infrastructure resilience in terms of how it could be incorporated into the existing safety and security practices, namely the ISO 31000 risk management standard. The article starts by outlining the resilien…
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A graph‐based method for social sensing of infrastructure disruptions in disasters Open
Damages in critical infrastructure occur abruptly, and disruptions evolve with time dynamically. Understanding the situation of critical infrastructure disruptions is essential to effective disaster response and recovery of communities. Al…
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Governance and interdependencies of critical infrastructures: Exploring mechanisms for cross-sector resilience Open
Much contemporary critical infrastructure research has been devoted to studies of the effects of risks stemming from interdependencies between critical infrastructures, here referred to as interdependency-related risks. However, this resea…
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Modeling critical infrastructure resilience under compounding threats: A systematic literature review Open
Multiple threat events may disrupt critical infrastructure functioning, thereby inhibiting the provision of essential goods and services to affected communities. It is currently unclear how modeling approaches have assessed critical infras…
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Resilience of Critical Infrastructure Systems: A Systematic Literature Review of Measurement Frameworks Open
Critical infrastructures such as transportation, power, telecommunication, water supply, and hospitals play a vital role in effectively managing post-disaster responses. The resilience of critical infrastructures should be incorporated in …
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How Critical Infrastructure Orients International Relief in Cascading Disasters Open
Critical infrastructure and facilities are central assets in modern societies, but their impact on international disaster relief remains mostly associated with logistics challenges. The emerging literature on cascading disasters suggests t…
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Improving Safety of Transportation by Using Intelligent Transport Systems Open
As the intelligent railway is the trend of current development, the paper aims to show an overview of some examples of intelligent systems and their functions that could help to protect transportation infrastructure. The paper deals with i…
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A Survey on Cyber-Physical Security of Active Distribution Networks in Smart Grids Open
Distribution systems are evolving from traditional passive networks into, what is known as, Active Distribution Networks (ADNs). Unlike traditional distribution networks, ADNs are characterized by bi-directional power flow, the high penetr…
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Cyber-attacks to critical energy infrastructure and management issues: overview of selected cases Open
The purpose of the paper is to analyze the vulnerabilities of Critical Energy Infrastructures' systems in the event of cyber-attack.The global tendency of cyber-attacks puts Critical Energy Infrastructures on one of the first places for ta…
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Securing SCADA-based Critical Infrastructures: Challenges and Open Issues Open
Conventionally, the security of critical infrastructures was mainly focused on environmental threats. Cyber attacks, nevertheless, have shifted the attention to various other threats and damages. The attackers try to exploit vulnerabilitie…
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Understanding the Challenge of Cybersecurity in Critical Infrastructure Sectors Open
The 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 cyberse…
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Cyber security management of critical energy infrastructure in national cybersecurity strategies: cases of USA, UK, France, Estonia and Lithuania Open
The progresses made in terms of cybersecurity in these past years have been huge, and the implementation of newer strategies has brought interesting results all over the globe. However, the full implementation of cybersecurity presents a c…
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Assets focus risk management framework for critical infrastructure cybersecurity risk management Open
Critical infrastructure (CI) is vital for the overall economic growth and its reliable and safe operation is essential for a nation's stability and people's safety. Proper operation of the assets is essential for such a system and any thre…
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The role of minimum supply and social vulnerability assessment for governing critical infrastructure failure: current gaps and future agenda Open
Increased attention has lately been given to the resilience of critical infrastructure in the context of natural hazards and disasters. The major focus therein is on the sensitivity of critical infrastructure technologies and their managem…
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Critical maritime infrastructure protection: What’s the trouble? Open
The protection of critical maritime infrastructures has become a top political priority, since the September 2022 attacks on the Nord Stream pipelines in the Baltic Sea. This contribution reveals why the protection of infrastructures at se…
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Predicting Cybersecurity Threats in Critical Infrastructure for Industry 4.0: A Proactive Approach Based on Attacker Motivations Open
In Industry 4.0, manufacturing and critical systems require high levels of flexibility and resilience for dynamic outcomes. Industrial Control Systems (ICS), specifically Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems, are common…
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Cyber security of railway cyber-physical system (CPS) – A risk management methodology Open
Along with the increasing application of different cyber-physical systems (CPSs) to connect various components in the rail industry, rising connectivity through communication technologies has also introduced cyber threats against rail-CPSs…
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Review of Cyberattack Implementation, Detection, and Mitigation Methods in Cyber-Physical Systems Open
With the rapid proliferation of cyber-physical systems (CPSs) in various sectors, including critical infrastructure, transportation, healthcare, and the energy industry, there is a pressing need for robust cybersecurity mechanisms to prote…
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Modeling Electric Power and Natural Gas System Interdependencies Open
To promote the resilience and protection of infrastructure assets from an all-hazards perspective, this paper describes the progress of interdependencies modeling and integration efforts to anticipate cascading failures among critical infr…
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From European critical infrastructure protection to the resilience of European critical entities: what does it mean? Open
The article is a public policy analysis of the development of legislation on critical infrastructure in\nthe European Union (EU), covering 27 developed countries. More precisely, it concerns the 2022\nCER Directive “on the resilience of cr…
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UK cyber security and critical national infrastructure protection Open
This article is intended to aid the UK government in protecting the UK from cyber attacks on its Critical National Infrastructure. With a National Cyber Security Centre now being established and an updated National Cyber Security Strategy …
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Cyber Threat Intelligence for Improving Cybersecurity and Risk Management in Critical Infrastructure Open
Cyber-attack is one of the significant threats affecting to any organisation specifically to the Critical Infrastructure (CI) organisation. These attacks are nowadays more sophisticated, multi-vectored and less predictable, which make the …
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Critical Infrastructure Protection: Maintenance is National Security Open
U.S. critical infrastructure protection (CIP) necessitates both the provision of security from internal and external threats and the repair of physically damaged critical infrastructure which may disrupt services. For years, the U.S. infra…
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Personnel threats in the electric power critical infrastructure sector and their effect on dependent sectors: Overview in the Czech Republic Open
The Electric Power Infrastructure Sector is a uniquely critical sector among other critical infrastructures. Disruptions to or failures of its functions would result in extensive effects, not only on society itself but also on all of the (…