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Critical Infrastructure Protection—How to Assess the Protection Efficiency

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Dependability Engineering and Complex Systems (DepCoS-RELCOMEX 2016)

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The paper presents a concept how to assess the effectiveness of critical infrastructure protection systems. At the beginning the main issues related to critical infrastructure protection are discussed, like resilience, interdependencies, dire phenomena caused by them, and risk management. Next, the state of the art is reviewed. It embraces frameworks, methods and tools related to infrastructures protection, especially risk management. The paper extends the researches of the EU CIRAS project beyond the risk management issue, proposing a method to assess the effectiveness of countermeasures selected for implementation. The concept is based on supplementing the risk management framework by incident management, incident statistics and effectiveness indicators presenting relevant parameters for decisions makers. To implement this concept, the CIRAS risk management software platform should be extended. Main categories of statistics and indicators dedicated for critical infrastructures are proposed. In the conclusion the concept is summarized and future works related to its validation is specified.

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    This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the European Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein (Grant Agreement clause).

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    Andrzej Bialas

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  1. Department of Computer Engineering, Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocław, Poland

    Wojciech Zamojski

  2. Department of Computer Engineering, Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocław, Poland

    Jacek Mazurkiewicz

  3. Department of Computer Engineering, Wrocław University of Technology, Wroclaw, Poland

    Jarosław Sugier

  4. Department of Computer Engineering, Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocław, Poland

    Tomasz Walkowiak

  5. Polish Academy of Sciences, Systems Research Institute, Warszawa, Poland

    Janusz Kacprzyk

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Bialas, A. (2016). Critical Infrastructure Protection—How to Assess the Protection Efficiency. In: Zamojski, W., Mazurkiewicz, J., Sugier, J., Walkowiak, T., Kacprzyk, J. (eds) Dependability Engineering and Complex Systems. DepCoS-RELCOMEX 2016. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 470. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39639-2_3

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