Vulnerability analysis of interdependent critical infrastructures upon a Cyber-attack

5Citations
Citations of this article
10Readers
Mendeley users who have this article in their library.

Abstract

There is an extensive literature on modelling cascading effects in Critical Infrastructures (CIs). Concerning the cascading impacts of a cyber-attack upon other CIs, a detailed scenario analysis done by the Norwegian Directorate of Civil Protection concludes that a considerable impact could be achieved. However, the analysis admits that the probability of the attack would be very low, since it would require considerable expertise and resources. We argue that a smart attacker could exploit existing knowledge on cascading impacts to plan for perfidiously-timed cyber-attacks requiring low resources that would achieve a significant disruption of CIs. To illustrate our point, we build and simulate a highly-aggregated system dynamics model using estimates of disruptions effects across CIs taken from the literature.

Cite

CITATION STYLE

APA

Abdelgawad, A. A., Farstad, T. E., & Gonzalez, J. J. (2019). Vulnerability analysis of interdependent critical infrastructures upon a Cyber-attack. In Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (Vol. 2019-January, pp. 629–638). IEEE Computer Society. https://doi.org/10.24251/hicss.2019.078

Register to see more suggestions

Mendeley helps you to discover research relevant for your work.

Already have an account?

Save time finding and organizing research with Mendeley

Sign up for free