Threats, Countermeasures and Attribution of Cyber Attacks on Critical Infrastructures

Leandros Maglaras; Mohamed Ferrag; Abdelouahid Derhab; Mithun Mukherjee; Helge Janicke; Stylianos Rallis

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Threats, Countermeasures and Attribution of Cyber Attacks on Critical Infrastructures

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@ARTICLE{10.4108/eai.15-10-2018.155856,
    author={Leandros Maglaras and Mohamed Amine Ferrag and Abdelouahid Derhab and Mithun Mukherjee and Helge Janicke and Stylianos Rallis},
    title={Threats, Countermeasures and Attribution of Cyber Attacks on Critical Infrastructures},
    journal={EAI Endorsed Transactions on Security and Safety},
    volume={5},
    number={16},
    publisher={EAI},
    journal_a={SESA},
    year={2018},
    month={10},
    keywords={Critical Infrastructures, Regulations, Cyber Security},
    doi={10.4108/eai.15-10-2018.155856}
}

Leandros Maglaras
Mohamed Amine Ferrag
Abdelouahid Derhab
Mithun Mukherjee
Helge Janicke
Stylianos Rallis
Year: 2018
Threats, Countermeasures and Attribution of Cyber Attacks on Critical Infrastructures
SESA
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eai.15-10-2018.155856

Leandros Maglaras^1,2^,*, Mohamed Amine Ferrag^3,4, Abdelouahid Derhab⁵, Mithun Mukherjee⁶, Helge Janicke¹, Stylianos Rallis²

1: Cyber Security Center, De Montfort University, Leicester, LE1 9BH, UK
2: General Secretariat of Digital Policy, Ministry of Digital Policy Telecommunications and Media, Athens, Greece
3: LabSTIC Laboratory, Guelma University, 24000 Guelma, Algeria
4: LRS Laboratory, Badji Mokhtar-Annaba University, 23000 Annaba, Algeria
5: Center of Excellence in Information Assurance (CoEIA), King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
6: Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, Maoming 525000, China

*Contact email: leandros.maglaras@dmu.ac.uk

Abstract

As Critical National Infrastructures are becoming more vulnerable to cyber attacks, their protection becomes a signiﬁcant issue for any organization as well as a nation. Moreover, the ability to attribute is a vital element of avoiding impunity in cyberspace. In this article, we present main threats to critical infrastructures along with protective measures that one nation can take, and which are classiﬁed according to legal, technical, organizational, capacity building, and cooperation aspects. Finally we provide an overview of current methods and practices regarding cyber attribution and cyber peace keeping.

Keywords: Critical Infrastructures, Regulations, Cyber Security

Received: 19th Sep 2018
Accepted: 3rd Oct 2018
Published: 17th Oct 2018
Publisher: EAI

: http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/eai.15-10-2018.155856

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