Information sharing practices that can benefit critical infrastructure protection.

Information sharing practices that can benefit critical infrastructure protection.
Author:
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 39
Release: 2001
Genre:
ISBN: 1428948104

This report responds to your May 2001 request that we study the practices of organizations that successfully share sensitive or time-critical information. Information sharing and coordination are key elements in developing comprehensive and practical approaches to defending against computer-based, or cyber, attacks, which could threaten the national welfare. Such attacks could severely disrupt computer-supported operations, compromise the confidentiality of sensitive information, and diminish the integrity of critical data. Computer-based incidents, such as the ILOVEYOU virus in May 2000 and the recent Code Red, SirCam, and Nimda attacks, have caused significant disruptions and damage. In addition, the terrorist attacks of September 11 illustrate the importance of having timely information from others on threats and possible precursors to an attack.

Information Sharing

Information Sharing
Author: United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher:
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2001
Genre: Cyberterrorism
ISBN:

Information Sharing

Information Sharing
Author: United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher:
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2001
Genre: Cyberterrorism
ISBN:

Critical Information Infrastructure Protection and the Law

Critical Information Infrastructure Protection and the Law
Author: National Academy of Engineering
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2003-05-21
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 030908878X

All critical infrastructures are increasingly dependent on the information infrastructure for information management, communications, and control functions. Protection of the critical information infrastructure (CIIP), therefore, is of prime concern. To help with this step, the National Academy of Engineering asked the NRC to assess the various legal issues associated with CIIP. These issues include incentives and disincentives for information sharing between the public and private sectors, and the role of FOIA and antitrust laws as a barrier or facilitator to progress. The report also provides a preliminary analysis of the role of criminal law, liability law, and the establishment of best practices, in encouraging various stakeholders to secure their computer systems and networks.

Critical Infrastructure Protection, Risk Management, and Resilience

Critical Infrastructure Protection, Risk Management, and Resilience
Author: Kelley A. Pesch-Cronin
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2024-06-07
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 104004624X

This second edition of Critical Infrastructure Protection, Risk Management, and Resilience continues to be an essential resource for understanding and protecting critical infrastructure across the U.S. Revised and thoroughly updated throughout, the textbook reflects and addresses the many changes that have occurred in critical infrastructure protection and risk management since the publication of the first edition. This new edition retains the book’s focus on understudied topics, while also continuing its unique, policy-based approach to topics, ensuring that material is presented in a neutral and unbiased manner. An accessible and up-to-date text, Critical Infrastructure Protection, Risk Management, and Resilience is a key textbook for upper-level undergraduate or graduate-level courses across Homeland Security, Critical Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, and Public Administration.

Securing Critical Infrastructures and Critical Control Systems: Approaches for Threat Protection

Securing Critical Infrastructures and Critical Control Systems: Approaches for Threat Protection
Author: Laing, Christopher
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2012-12-31
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1466626909

The increased use of technology is necessary in order for industrial control systems to maintain and monitor industrial, infrastructural, or environmental processes. The need to secure and identify threats to the system is equally critical. Securing Critical Infrastructures and Critical Control Systems: Approaches for Threat Protection provides a full and detailed understanding of the vulnerabilities and security threats that exist within an industrial control system. This collection of research defines and analyzes the technical, procedural, and managerial responses to securing these systems.

Cyber-Physical Threat Intelligence for Critical Infrastructures Security

Cyber-Physical Threat Intelligence for Critical Infrastructures Security
Author: John Soldatos
Publisher:
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2020-06-30
Genre:
ISBN: 9781680836868

Modern critical infrastructures comprise of many interconnected cyber and physical assets, and as such are large scale cyber-physical systems. Hence, the conventional approach of securing these infrastructures by addressing cyber security and physical security separately is no longer effective. Rather more integrated approaches that address the security of cyber and physical assets at the same time are required. This book presents integrated (i.e. cyber and physical) security approaches and technologies for the critical infrastructures that underpin our societies. Specifically, it introduces advanced techniques for threat detection, risk assessment and security information sharing, based on leading edge technologies like machine learning, security knowledge modelling, IoT security and distributed ledger infrastructures. Likewise, it presets how established security technologies like Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), pen-testing, vulnerability assessment and security data analytics can be used in the context of integrated Critical Infrastructure Protection. The novel methods and techniques of the book are exemplified in case studies involving critical infrastructures in four industrial sectors, namely finance, healthcare, energy and communications. The peculiarities of critical infrastructure protection in each one of these sectors is discussed and addressed based on sector-specific solutions. The advent of the fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0) is expected to increase the cyber-physical nature of critical infrastructures as well as their interconnection in the scope of sectorial and cross-sector value chains. Therefore, the demand for solutions that foster the interplay between cyber and physical security, and enable Cyber-Physical Threat Intelligence is likely to explode. In this book, we have shed light on the structure of such integrated security systems, as well as on the technologies that will underpin their operation. We hope that Security and Critical Infrastructure Protection stakeholders will find the book useful when planning their future security strategies.