Critical Infrastructure Protection

Eric Goetz is the Associate Director for Research at the Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA. Sujeet Shenoi is the F.P. Walter Professor of Computer Science and a principal with the Center for Information Security at the University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA

• Themes And Issues.- On the Security Implications of Disruptive Technologies.- Cyber Security: Are Economic Incentives Adequate?.- Government Intervention in Information Infrastructure Protection.- Infrastructure Security.- Security of Information Flow in the Electric Power Grid.- Securing Positive Train Control Systems.- Lessons Learned from the Maroochy Water Breach.- Reducing Risk in Oil and Gas Production Operations.- Control Systems Security.- Securing Current and Future Process Control Systems.- Security Strategies for SCADA Networks.- Security Enhancements for Distributed Control Systems.- Security Challenges of Reconfigurable Devices in the Power Grid.- Intrusion Detection and Event Monitoring in SCADA Networks.- Passive Scanning in Modbus Networks.- Formal Modeling and Analysis of the Modbus Protocol.- Security Analysis of Multilayer SCADA Protocols.- Remote Forensic Analysis of Process Control Systems.- Creating a European SCADA Security Testbed.- Network Infrastructure Security.- Protecting Internet Services from Low-Rate DoS Attacks.- Detecting Wormhole Attacks in Wireless Sensor Networks.- Detecting Non-Discoverable Bluetooth Devices.- Infrastructure Interdependencies.- Risk Analysis in Interdependent Infrastructures.- Analysis of Interdependencies Between Italy's Economic Sectors.- The ISE Metamodel for Critical Infrastructures.- Multigraph Dependency Models for Heterogeneous Infrastructures.- Visualizing Cascading Failures in Critical Cyber Infrastructures.- Risk Assessment.- A Service-Oriented Approach for Assessing Infrastructure Security.- Analysis of Electrical Power and Oil and Gas Pipeline Failures.

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