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  Risk management goals and identification of critical infrastructures

  Strategic goals help streamlining risk management efforts, and criticality assessments of infrastructures benefit from such goals. This paper offers an introduction into recent German civil protection activities on this topic at national level. It offers a transferable concept on how to identify, document and justify priorities regarding critical infrastructure services. Based on human values it ...

  Oct. 30, 2012
  

  By Inderscience Publishers

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  On the vulnerability of critical infrastructures: "seeing it coming"

  The paper addresses a number of concerns that are manifest in the safety management of critical infrastructures (CI) including, and especially, the effects of an increasing complexity on the safety managers' ability to comprehend and monitor the stability, predictability, and manoeuvrability of the systems at hand; the perverse effect of computer ubiquity on the CI safety quality; and, entailing ...

  Feb. 7, 2005
  

  By Inderscience Publishers

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  Emergent information security in critical infrastructures

  The growing tendency to inter-weaving infrastructures makes them more complex, less manageable, and more vulnerable to random system failures. Several information systems are usually added to manage and control such infrastructures. However, in this internet era these information infrastructures have increasingly become the targets of sophisticated (denial of service) attacks, which cause random ...

  Apr. 3, 2006
  

  By Inderscience Publishers

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  New dilemmas in regulating critical infrastructures

  Regulation, as it was introduced to round off the great institutional changes in the critical infrastructures, has failed to fully curb strategic behaviour in these sectors. This is one of the reasons for the somewhat disappointing performance of these sectors. Regulation in its present shape is based on the mantra: independent, rule guided and transparent. This paper sets out how these ...

  Apr. 3, 2006
  

  By Inderscience Publishers

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  Multiformalism techniques for critical infrastructure modelling

  This paper proposes an approach to use multiformalism techniques for critical infrastructure modelling. To this aim, the state of the art of related works on the subject is surveyed and a general scheme for intra and inter infrastructure models is described. Multiformalism approaches allow modellers to adapt the choice of formal languages to the nature, complexity and abstraction layer of the ...

  Sep. 28, 2010
  

  By Inderscience Publishers

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  Modelling interdependencies among critical infrastructures

  Over the years, Critical Infrastructures (CIs) have become increasingly automated and interlinked. This linkage between CIs results in a very complex and dynamic system which increases their vulnerability to failures. In fact, interdependencies between CIs are a true means of propagation of hazards from one network to another. Thus, when an infrastructure is experiencing difficulties and ...

  Sep. 4, 2008
  

  By Inderscience Publishers

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  Assessment process of the resilience potential of critical infrastructures

  The research results presented aim to define a framework for evaluating the potential of resilience for critical infrastructure (CI). CI are an integral part of the community and a better knowledge of their potential for resilience will help to reduce the risk of disasters and provide tools to manage them. The framework helped to define a method to evaluate the potential for resilience CI based ...

  Dec. 18, 2014
  

  By Inderscience Publishers

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  A strategic approach to risk governance of critical infrastructures

  This paper discusses governance as a promising approach for dealing with the risks of infrastructures, and specifically with reference to the European situation. The liberalisation and the unbundling of the institutional and market arrangements and the pervasive application of information and communication technologies have increased the interconnectivity among systems and nations, making risks ...

  Nov. 22, 2006
  

  By Inderscience Publishers

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  Models for reducing the risk of critical networked infrastructures

  In this paper, we review the literature studying how to reduce the disruption risk to critical networked infrastructures. This is an important area of research because huge consequences result from infrastructure disruptions. As a result, this research area has grown a lot in the last decade. In this review we discuss articles from the literature, place them into categories, and suggest topics ...

  Aug. 29, 2011
  

  By Inderscience Publishers

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  Towards a research framework for critical infrastructure interdependencies

  Critical Infrastructure (CI) interdependencies have important consequences for crisis management, particularly when the crises are cross-border. However, research into CI interdependencies is still immature. The nature of large-scale, cross-border crises in these systems of systems is not easily understood. We have identified several aspects that need to be investigated to gain a more complete ...

  Jul. 20, 2009
  

  By Inderscience Publishers

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  The operational tools for managing physical interdependencies among critical infrastructures

  As a result of advances in information technology and the necessity of improved efficiency, Critical Infrastructures (CIs) have become increasingly automated and interlinked over the years. This linkage between CI results in a very complex and dynamic system. However, this growing complexity of CI and their interdependencies reveals new vulnerabilities. In fact, the interdependencies between CI ...

  Sep. 4, 2008
  

  By Inderscience Publishers

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  Novelty detection and management to safeguard information-intensive critical infrastructures

  When the complexity of a system increases, the number of possible faults and anomalous working conditions becomes very high; on the contrary, the number of ‘normal’ behaviours is generally low and often well determined by rules and constraints defined by the characteristics of the furnished services. In this paper, after a general overview of the SAFEGUARD1 system, a more detailed ...

  Mar. 1, 2008
  

  By Inderscience Publishers

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  Reduction techniques in modelling critical infrastructures under the infrastructure interdependencies simulator framework

  Modern, urban population centres are comprised of highly interdependent networks of infrastructures. In normal operating conditions, these interdependencies can be neglected without much trouble, however, in times of emergency, these same interdependencies, often hidden, can debilitate relief efforts. The effects are often noted in disaster response post–mortems as poor distribution of resources ...

  Jun. 26, 2013
  

  By Inderscience Publishers

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  Developing an index to assess the resilience of critical infrastructure

  In 2009, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) began using a targeted questionnaire to produce individual vulnerability/protective-measure values for high-risk critical infrastructures and key resources. As sites continue to be assessed, the topic of resilience is emerging as a necessary focus in risk management and infrastructure protection. Enhancing the resilience of critical ...

  Jan. 1, 2012
  

  By Inderscience Publishers

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  Critical infrastructures at risk: securing electric power supply

  The proper functioning of large infrastructures and in particular, the continuity of the vital services they provide is largely taken for granted, both by direct users and by those responsible for other, dependent infrastructures and services. The current paper addresses in a methodical manner, methods to deal with issues related to the risk and risk governance of critical infrastructures, with ...

  Apr. 3, 2006
  

  By Inderscience Publishers

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  Simulation and anticipation of domino effects among critical infrastructures

  Interdependencies among critical infrastructures (CIs) are the cause of domino effects that may have serious consequences for society. To limit the consequences of these phenomena, it is important to be able to anticipate any situation that may trigger a domino effect. To do so, it is necessary to have a good understanding of how CIs are interlinked and how they rely on each other to properly ...

  Dec. 10, 2013
  

  By Inderscience Publishers

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  Risk management of complex critical systems

  It is crucial to examine the changing panorama of vulnerabilities and criticalities in our increasingly interconnected world. Understanding the meaning of complexity and its implications allows us to see the interconnectedness of the world for enhanced risk management in technical and social systems. In this respect, a framework to assess complex systems is necessary to understand vulnerabilities ...

  Feb. 7, 2005
  

  By Inderscience Publishers

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  Vulnerability analysis of interdependent critical infrastructures: case study of the Swedish railway system

  Critical infrastructures provide essential services which enable our society to function. Disruptions in infrastructures can have widespread effects, not only for the originating infrastructure but also, through mutual dependencies, for other infrastructures. Identifying vulnerabilities inherent in these system–of–systems is thus highly critical for the proactive management and avoidance of ...

  Jan. 25, 2012
  

  By Inderscience Publishers

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  Critical infrastructure and smart technology risk modelling using computational intelligence

  We discuss the criticality of infrastructure in economic development and security, and identify various risks posed by smart technologies as applied to infrastructure. We provide a computational intelligence methodology, using attitudinal and fuzzy modelling, and illustrate its application as a risk modelling decision technology in the selection of smart technology in critical ...

  Oct. 15, 2009
  

  By Inderscience Publishers

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  Multicriteria decision support for business continuity planning in the event of critical infrastructure disruptions

  Industrial production sites and Critical Infrastructures (CIs) may be severely damaged by external events, such as man-made or natural hazards. Particularly, a disruption in the electricity supply may cause physical damages and production downtimes associated with substantial economic losses. Due to the tight interdependencies within the different CI sectors and the complex network structure of ...

  Feb. 2, 2009
  

  By Inderscience Publishers