CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION – CHALLENGES AND EFFORTS TO SECURE CONTROL SYSTEMS –
CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION – CHALLENGES AND EFFORTS TO SECURE CONTROL SYSTEMS –

Summary/Abstract: The increase in the interconnectivity between computers, especially those connected to the Internet continues to revolutionize the manner the governments, nations, the economic and financial community communicates and does business. However, increasing the interconnectivity will expose the computers of a country or a government to great risks. A greater threat is the risk arising from the reliance on critical operations and infrastructures that support such activities to the control information systems. The main risks to the control system are not physical (as considered until recently), but the cyber attacks that can have very different origins: hostile governments, terrorist groups, dissatisfied employees etc.

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