Management and Engineering of Critical Infrastructures

Provides comprehensive coverage on the management and engineering of critical infrastructure systems

Bedir Tekinerdogan (Edited by), Mehmet Aksit (Edited by), Cagatay Catal (Edited by), William Hurst (Edited by), Tarek AlSkaif (Edited by)

9780323993302

Paperback / softback, published 4 September 2023

358 pages
23.5 x 19 x 2.1 cm, 0.45 kg

Management and Engineering of Critical Infrastructures focuses on two important aspects of CIS, management and engineering. The book provides an ontological foundation for the models and methods needed to design a set of systems, networks and assets that are essential for a society's functioning, and for ensuring the security, safety and economy of a nation. Various examples in agriculture, the water supply, public health, transportation, security services, electricity generation, telecommunication, and financial services can be used to substantiate dangers. Disruptions of CIS can have serious cascading consequences that would stop society from functioning properly and result in loss of life.

Malicious software (a.k.a., malware), for example, can disrupt the distribution of electricity across a region, which in turn can lead to the forced shutdown of communication, health and financial sectors. Subsequently, proper engineering and management are important to anticipate possible risks and threats and provide resilient CIS. Although the problem of CIS has been broadly acknowledged and discussed, to date, no unifying theory nor systematic design methods, techniques and tools exist for such CIS.

PART I Key concepts
1. Introduction
2. Critical infrastructures: Key concepts and challenges
3. Insider threats to critical infrastructure: A typology
PART II Management of critical infrastructures
4. Health management of critical digital business ecosystems: A system dynamics approach
5. Key performance indicators of emergency management systems
6. Responding cyber-attacks and managing cyber security crises in critical infrastructures: A sociotechnical perspective
PART III Engineering of critical infrastructures
7. Event-based digital-twin model for emergency management
8. Analyzing systems product line engineering process alternatives for physical protection systems
9. Reference architecture design for machine learning supported cybersecurity systems
10. An architectural framework for the allocation resources in emergency management systems
PART IV Application domains
11. Urban water distribution networks: Challenges and solution directions
12. Critical infrastructure security: Cyber-threats, legacy systems and weakening segmentation
13. Energy systems as a critical infrastructure: Threats, solutions, and future outlook
14. Deep learning for agricultural risk management: Achievements and challenges

Subject Areas: Enterprise software [UFL], Technology: general issues [TB]