Critical Infrastructure Protection IX

The§information infrastructure---comprising computers, embedded devices, networks§and software systems---is vital to day-to-day operations in every sector:§information and telecommunications, banking and finance, energy, chemicals and§hazardous materials, agriculture, food, water, public health, emergency§services, transportation, postal and shipping, government and defense. Global§business and industry, governments, indeed society itself, cannot function§effectively if major components of the critical information infrastructure are§degraded, disabled or destroyed.§§Critical§Infrastructure Protection describes original research results and innovative§applications in the interdisciplinary field of critical infrastructure§protection. Also, it highlights the§importance of weaving science, technology and policy in crafting sophisticated,§yet practical, solutions that will help secure information, computer and network§assets in the various critical infrastructure sectors. Areas of coverage include: Themes and Issues,§Control Systems Security, Cyber-Physical Systems Security, Infrastructure§Security, Infrastructure Modeling and Simulation, Risk and Impact Assessment.§§This§book is the ninth volume in the annual series produced by the International§Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 11.10 on Critical§Infrastructure Protection, an international community of scientists, engineers,§practitioners and policy makers dedicated to advancing research, development§and implementation efforts focused on infrastructure protection. The book contains a selection of nineteen§edited papers from the Ninth Annual IFIP WG 11.10 International Conference on§Critical Infrastructure Protection, held at SRI International, Arlington,§Virginia, USA in the spring of 2015.§§Critical§Infrastructure Protection IX is an important resource for researchers, faculty§members and graduate students, as well as for policy makers, practitioners and§other individuals with interests in homeland security.§§Mason§Rice is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Air Force Institute§of Technology, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, USA.§§Sujeet§Shenoi is the F.P. Walter Professor of Computer Science and a Professor of§Chemical Engineering at the University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA.§§