Cyber-security risk assessment framework for critical infrastructures

Zubair Baig; Sherali Zeadally

doi:10.31209/2018.100000049

Cyber-security risk assessment framework for critical infrastructures

Zubair Baig, Sherali Zeadally

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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. The framework defines finegrained risk identification to help quantify and assess exploitable vulnerabilities within a critical infrastructure

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	121-130
Number of pages	10
Journal	Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing
Volume	25
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.31209/2018.100000049
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.

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Keywords

Critical Infrastructures
Cyber Security
Risk Assessment
Smart Grid Communications
Threats

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Software
Theoretical Computer Science
Computational Theory and Mathematics
Artificial Intelligence

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