Critical Infrastructures Cybersecurity and Resilience
A special issue of Signals (ISSN 2624-6120).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2021) | Viewed by 9170
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Interests: critical infrastructure cyber security; information and communication systems security; cyber physical systems security; systems of systems security; network security; security awareness
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Interests: ICT security and privacy; DNS security
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Interests: network security; wireless communication; IoT; critical infrastructures; wireless sensor networks; signal processing
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2. Department of Information Security and Communication Technology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2815 Gjøvik, Norway
Interests: security; intrusion detection; privacy blockchain
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Special Issue Information
Dear colleagues,
Critical Infrastructures are defined as “assets, systems or part thereof which are essential for the maintenance of vital societal functions, health, safety, security, economic or social well-being of people, and the disruption or destruction of which would have a significant impact as a result of the failure to maintain those functions.” Critical Infrastructures refer to a multitude of sectors, including energy, manufacturing, transportation, healthcare and public safety. Systems deployed within these sectors integrate both information technologies and operational technologies, being commonly reliant on legacy industrial control and cyberphysical systems. Nevertheless, novel disruptive and enabling information and communication technologies are increasingly integrated, increasing connectivity and interdependencies, thus presenting security professionals with significant challenges in maintaining and enhancing the security and resilience of such infrastructures. This Special Issue invites submissions that present innovative ideas, proof of concepts, use cases, and results from a variety of topics relevant to critical infrastructure cybersecurity and resilience, including (but not limited to) the following ones:
Security Governance
- Security policies
- Risk analysis and management
- Vulnerability assessment and metrics
- Awareness, training, and simulation
- ICS/CPS security standards
- Privacy and Anonymity in ICS/CPS
System and Network Security
- Threat modeling
- Security architectures
- Access control
- Malware and cyber weapons
- Intrusion detection and visualization
- Defense in depth
- Monitoring and real-time supervision
- Applied cryptography
- Perimeter security
- Safety-security interactions
- Cybersecurity engineering
- Secure communication protocols
- Formal models for ICS/CPS security
- Hardware Security
- Resilient ICS/CPS
- Application Security
- Secure Firmware
Incident Response and Digital Forensics for ICS/CPS
- Forensics in ICS
- Incident Response
- Accountability
Case Studies
- Case studies in the energy, utility, chemical, transportation, manufacturing, and other industrial and critical infrastructure sectors
Please note that all of the submitted papers must be within the general scope of the Signals journal.
Dr. Vasileios Gkioulos
Dr. Marios Anagnostopoulos
Dr. Sandeep Pirbhulal
Dr. Georgios Spathoulas
Dr. Ajay Nehra
Guest Editors
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