CyberSecurity In Critical Infrastructures

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Abstract This chapter opens the book by introducing the characteristics and particularities of critical infrastructures. Their existence and interplay form a vital pillar of contemporary societies, and their protection is a top duty of governments and security research. Recent years have shown a paradigm shift of cyber-attacks from specific individual threat and attack scenarios, to a modern combination of various attack types and strategies to what we call an advanced persistent threat (APT) today. This term describes a diverse class of attacks that all share a set of common characteristics, which presents new challenges to security that demand urgent and continuous action by practitioners, researchers, and every stakeholder of critical infrastructure. The main focus of the book is describing game theory as a tool to establish security against APTs, and to this end, the introduction here starts with the abstract characteristics of an APT, showcasing them with a set of selected real-life documented cases of APTs that ends the chapter.

The series Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications comprises interdisciplinary research covering the theory, foundations and domain-specific topics pertaining to security. Publications within the series are peer-reviewed monographs and edited works in the areas of:

– biological and chemical threat recognition and detection (e.g., biosensors, aerosols, forensics)
– crisis and disaster management
– terrorism
– cybersecurity and secure information systems (e.g., encryption, optical and photonic systems)
– traditional and non-traditional security
– energy, food, and resource security
– economic security and securitization (including associated infrastructures)
– transnational crime
– human security and health security
– social, political, and psychological aspects of security
– recognition and identification (e.g., optical imaging, biometrics, authentication, and verification)
– smart surveillance systems
– applications of theoretical frameworks and methodologies (e.g

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