Risk Perception Related to Critical Infrastructure

Critical infrastructure protection under imperfect attacker perception

This paper considers the problem of allocating nite resources among the elements of a critical infrastructure system in order to protect it from antagonistic attacks. Previous studies have assumed that the attacker has complete information about the utilities associated with attacks on each element. In reality, it is likely that the attacker's perception of the system is not as precise as the d...

AIDS Risk Perception and its related factors in Women with High-Risk Behaviors in Iran

Background & aim: AIDS is one of the major public health challenges all over the world. Perceived risk is a significant predictor of high-risk behaviors related to AIDS. Women constitute more than half of the HIV patients, and the rate of female sex workers with AIDS is more than the rest of female population. Therefore, the present study aimed to evaluate AIDS risk perception and its related f...

Critical Infrastructure Infomation Security: Impacts of Identity and Related Crimes

The physical and digital security of a nation’s critical infrastructure is necessary for its citizens, commerce and their public and private owners’ to conduct successful business transactions. A complicating factor towards this security is the multi-jurisdictional nature of some critical infrastructure assets e.g., telecommunications or financial systems. Information systems (IS) and informati...

Supplemental Tool: Executing A Critical Infrastructure Risk Management Approach

Delayed-Bang Approach Towards More Sustainable Critical Infrastructure Risk Management

This article describes the Delayed Bang Approach for determining the value of risk management alternatives in critical infrastructure security. The discussion includes (1) the need for sustainable risk management (2) the importance of time valuation in evaluating competing loss prevention and loss reduction alternatives, (3) the convergence of deterministic engineering economics, survivability ...