Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 186 for “"Critical Infrastructure"”.
-
Quantifying Vulnerability to Critical Infrastructure
… have the responsibility to protect our Nation's critical infrastructure, communities, and symbols of American power from terrorists, home and abroad, as well as from natural disasters. To this end, assessments are conducted to reduce vulnerability. The literature offers multiple definitions of …
-
Cybersecurity for urban critical infrastructure
Our cities are under attack. Urban critical infrastructure which includes the electric grid, water networks, transportation systems and public health and safety services are constantly being targeted by cyberattacks. Urban critical infrastructure has been increasingly connected to the internet for …
-
Robust Anomaly Detection in Critical Infrastructure
Critical Infrastructures (CIs) such as water treatment plants, power grids and telecommunication networks are critical to the daily activities and well-being of our society. Disruption of such CIs would have catastrophic consequences for public safety and the national economy. Hence, these …
-
Programmable cyber networks for critical infrastructure
The operational integrity of the infrastructure systems is critical for a nation state’s economic and security interests. Such systems rely on automation to perform complex control tasks to avoid malfunction caused by human error. However, such automation requires coordination of their components. …
-
Critical Infrastructure Automated Immuno-Response System (CIAIRS)
Critical Infrastructures play a central role in the world around us and are the backbone of everyday life. Their service provision has become more widespread, to the point where it is now practically ubiquitous in many societies. Critical Infrastructure assets contribute to the economy and society …
-
Behavioural Observation for Critical Infrastructure Security Support
Critical infrastructures include sectors such as energy resources, finance, food and water distribution, health, manufacturing and government services. In recent years, critical infrastructures have become increasingly dependent on ICT; more interconnected and are often, as a result, linked to the …
-
Prioritized Reconfiguration of Interdependent Critical Infrastructure Systems
… problem of reconfiguration for restoration in critical infrastructure systems, with regard for the prioritization of those systems and the relationships between them. The complexity of the reconfiguration problem is demonstrated, and previous efforts to present solutions to the problem are …
-
Securing Access to Cloud Computing for Critical Infrastructure
… effective services on-demand which encourage critical infrastructure providers to consider migrating to the cloud. Critical infrastructures are considered as a backbone of modern societies such as power plants and water. Information in cloud computing is likely to be shared among different …
-
Risk-based Security Management in Critical Infrastructure Organizations
Critical infrastructure and contemporary business organizations are experiencing an ongoing paradigm shift of business towards more collaboration and agility. On the one hand, this shift seeks to enhance business efficiency, coordinate large-scale distribution operations, and manage complex supply …
-
Statistical and machine learning models for critical infrastructure resilience
… data-driven approach to improving predictions of critical infrastructure behaviors. In our first approach, we explore novel data sources and time series modeling techniques to model disaster impacts on power systems through the case study of Hurricane Sandy as it impacted the state of New York. We …
-
Regional risk and resilience analysis of interdependent critical infrastructure
The student, Roberto Guidotti, accepted the attached license on 2018-07-05 at 18:26.
-
Publish-subscribe based middleware for heterogeneous critical infrastructure systems communication.
Critical Infrastructures (CIs) are physical assets and organizations responsible for the production and distribution of society’s vital goods and services. The increasing interconnection of CIs has resulted in interdependencies which effect the propagation of failure from one infrastructure to …
-
Classifying Interdependencies in the Food and Agriculture Critical Infrastructure Sector
<p>This work classifies examples of infrastructure interdependencies found in the food and agriculture critical infrastructure sector. Interdependencies are identified through an examination of rice and poultry agriculture throughout the state of Arkansas. The subtleties of interdependence examples …
-
Strategic and analytics-driven inspection operations for critical infrastructure resilience
Resilience of infrastructure networks is a key requirement for a functioning modern society. These networks work continuously to enable the delivery of critical services such as water, natural gas, and transportation. However, recent natural disasters and cyber-physical security attacks have …
-
Model-Centric Interdependent Critical Infrastructure System Recovery Analysis and Metrics
… modeling concepts for use with interdependent critical infrastructure system reconfiguration and recovery analysis. The work combines concepts from Graph Trace Analysis (GTA), Object Oriented Analysis and Design (OOAandD), the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and Physical Network Modeling; and …
-
Protecting critical infrastructure systems using cyber, physical, and socio-technical models
"Critical infrastructure systems are vital to all nations, and incapacitating such systems can result in devastating impact on the general public. Therefore, it is essential to protect such systems from malicious threats. Today, the increasing interconnectedness of critical infrastructure systems …
-
An analysis of cybersecurity culture in an organisation managing Critical Infrastructure
… and increasingly so for organisations managing critical infrastructure. Environments that traditionally operated entirely independent of networks and the internet are now connecting in ways that are exposing critical infrastructure to a new level of cyber-risks that now need to be managed. Due …
-
Hardware intrusion detection for supply-chain threats to critical infrastructure embedded systems
… with an increase in cyber security concerns for critical infrastructure applications, there is a growing concern and lack of solutions for cyber-based supply chain and device life-cycle threats. The challenge for this application space is that cost-driven engineering and market viability requires …
-
ENHANCING CYBERSECURITY RESILIENCE: EVALUATING SPACE-BASED SYSTEMS AS THE 17TH CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE SECTOR
… systems within the broader context of U.S. critical infrastructure (CI) and assesses whether these systems warrant designation as a distinct CI sector. Space systems have increasingly become interconnected across multiple existing CI sectors, including telecommunications, energy, and …
Page 1 of 10