This book presents the latest trends in attacks and protection methods of Critical
Infrastructures. It describes original research models and applied solutions for protecting
major emerging threats in Critical Infrastructures and their underlying networks. It presents a
number of emerging endeavors from newly adopted technical expertise in industrial security to
efficient modeling and implementation of attacks and relevant security measures in industrial
control systems including advancements in hardware and services security interdependency
networks risk analysis and control systems security along with their underlying protocols.
Novel attacks against Critical Infrastructures (CI) demand novel security solutions. Simply
adding more of what is done already (e.g. more thorough risk assessments more expensive
Intrusion Prevention Detection Systems more efficient firewalls etc.) is simply not enough
against threats and attacks that seem to have evolved beyond modern analyses and protection
methods. The knowledge presented here will help Critical Infrastructure authorities security
officers Industrial Control Systems (ICS) personnel and relevant researchers to (i) get
acquainted with advancements in the field (ii) integrate security research into their
industrial or research work (iii) evolve current practices in modeling and analyzing Critical
Infrastructures and (iv) moderate potential crises and emergencies influencing or emerging
from Critical Infrastructures.
