Abstract
A critical infrastructure provides essential services to a nation’s population. Interruptions in its smooth operations are highly undesirable because they will cause significant and devastating consequences on all stakeholders in the society. In order to provide sustained protection to a nation’s critical infrastructure, we must continually assess and evaluate the risks thereof. We propose a risk assessment framework that can evaluate the risks posed to the security of a critical infrastructure from threat agents, with a special emphasis on the smart grid communications infrastructure.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 121-130 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Journal | Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing |
Volume | 25 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Mar 2019 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:WE thank the anonymous reviewers for their suggestions and comments which helped us improve the content and presentation of this paper. Sherali Zeadally was partially supported by a University of Kentucky Research Professorship Award as well as an Edith Cowan University Silver Jubilee Visiting Professorship Award during this work.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 TSI® Press.
Keywords
- Critical Infrastructures
- Cyber Security
- Risk Assessment
- Smart Grid Communications
- Threats
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Software
- Theoretical Computer Science
- Computational Theory and Mathematics
- Artificial Intelligence