Cybersecurity of critical infrastructures such as nuclear facilities

Cyber Security of Safety-critical Infrastructures: a Case Study for Nuclear Facilities

Computers have become crucial to the operations of government and business. Critical infrastructure protection policy has evolved since the mid-1990’s. Since 11 September 2001, the critical link between cyberspace and physical space has been increasingly recognized. Presently, critical infrastructure sectors face various cyber threats. In particular, the electrical power infrastructure is the m...

Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity

VeriSign, Inc. operates several of the world’s largest and most important DNS Registries (.com, .net, .gov, and more). Because of this operational role that we fulfill, we continually strive to foster and ensure the security and stability of the global Internet [10]. In this vein, we applaud the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST’s) request for information: NIST Docket Numbe...

Critical Aviation Information Systems Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Protection

Cybersecurity entails the safeguarding of computer networks and the information they contain from penetration and from malicious damage or disruption. Since the use of computer networks has become a major element in governmental and business activities, tampering with these networks can have serious consequences for agencies, firms and individuals. The question is to what degree these individua...

Analysis of Critical Infrastructures

Developing an awareness of the challenges entailed in the protection of Critical Infrastructures is an important first step. Before one can take effective measures to improve the protection of Critical Infrastructures, it is necessary to understand how these function and to identify and analyse the critical processes within the Critical Infrastructures. The ACIS methodology described in this pa...