This paper deals with a protection of the national and European infrastructure. It is issue nowadays. The paper deals with the perspectives and possibilities of "smart solutions" to critical infrastructure protection. The research project deals with computers aided technologies are used from the perspective of new, better protection of selected infrastructure objects. Protection is focused on c...

The Smart Grid, regarded as the next generation power grid, uses two-way flows of electricity and information to create a widely distributed automated energy delivery network. In this article, we survey the literature till 2011 on the enabling technologies for the Smart Grid. We explore three major systems, namely the smart infrastructure system, the smart management system, and the smart prote...

In this paper we present a computational infrastructure, the Security Backbone, which is able to satisfy security requirements arising from resource sharing and services interoperability in Grid-like environments, without having to rely on a PublicKey Infrastructure (PKI). Motivation of our approach is rooted in the well-known difficulties encountered to show that interoperability of PKIs is ef...