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Paul Fergus - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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A Survey of Critical Infrastructure Security
2017Co-Authors: William Hurst, Madjid Merabti, Paul FergusAbstract:Traditionally, securing against environmental threats was the main focus of critical Infrastructure protection. However, the emergence of cyber attacks has changed the focus – Infrastructures are facing a different danger that has life-threatening consequences and the risk of significant economic losses. Clearly, conventional Security techniques are struggling to keep up with the volume of innovative and emerging attacks. Fresh and adaptive Infrastructure Security solutions are required. This paper discusses critical Infrastructures and the digital threats they face, and provides insights into current and future Infrastructure Security strategies.
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Critical Infrastructure Protection - A Survey of Critical Infrastructure Security
Progress in Pattern Recognition Image Analysis Computer Vision and Applications, 2014Co-Authors: William Hurst, Madjid Merabti, Paul FergusAbstract:Traditionally, securing against environmental threats was the main focus of critical Infrastructure protection. However, the emergence of cyber attacks has changed the focus – Infrastructures are facing a different danger that has life-threatening consequences and the risk of significant economic losses. Clearly, conventional Security techniques are struggling to keep up with the volume of innovative and emerging attacks. Fresh and adaptive Infrastructure Security solutions are required. This paper discusses critical Infrastructures and the digital threats they face, and provides insights into current and future Infrastructure Security strategies.
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Behaviour analysis techniques for supporting critical Infrastructure Security
International Journal of Critical Infrastructures, 2014Co-Authors: William Hurst, Madjid Merabti, Paul FergusAbstract:Protecting critical Infrastructures from cyber-threats in an increasingly digital age is a matter of growing urgency for governments and private industries across the globe. In a climate where cyber safety is an uncertainty, fresh and adaptive solutions to existing computer Security approaches are a must. In this paper, we present our approach to supporting critical Infrastructure Security. Data is constructed from a critical Infrastructure simulation, developed using Siemens Tecnomatix Plant Simulator and the programming language SimTalk. The data collected from the simulation, when both functioning as normal and during a cyber-attack scenario, is done through the use of observers. By extracting features from the data collected, threats to the system are identified by modelling system behaviour and identifying changes in patterns of activity by using three data classification techniques.
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behavioural observation for critical Infrastructure Security support
European Modelling Symposium, 2013Co-Authors: William Hurst, Madjid Merabti, Paul FergusAbstract:The research presented in this paper offers a way of supporting the Security currently in place in critical Infrastructures by using behavioural observation to add to the Defence in Depth (DiD). Our approach is proactive and continually looks to identify patterns or behaviour, which is out of place in the ordinary operations of the Infrastructure. As this work demonstrates, applying behavioural observation to critical Infrastructure protection has effective results. In this paper, our design for Behavioural Observation for Critical Infrastructure Security Support (BOCISS) is presented. This entails an outline of the system architecture, an explanation of the system modes of operation, the development of a simulation for data construction purposes and the evaluation of our system using our simulated data.
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EMS - Behavioural Observation for Critical Infrastructure Security Support
2013 European Modelling Symposium, 2013Co-Authors: William Hurst, Madjid Merabti, Paul FergusAbstract:The research presented in this paper offers a way of supporting the Security currently in place in critical Infrastructures by using behavioural observation to add to the Defence in Depth (DiD). Our approach is proactive and continually looks to identify patterns or behaviour, which is out of place in the ordinary operations of the Infrastructure. As this work demonstrates, applying behavioural observation to critical Infrastructure protection has effective results. In this paper, our design for Behavioural Observation for Critical Infrastructure Security Support (BOCISS) is presented. This entails an outline of the system architecture, an explanation of the system modes of operation, the development of a simulation for data construction purposes and the evaluation of our system using our simulated data.
William Hurst - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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A Survey of Critical Infrastructure Security
2017Co-Authors: William Hurst, Madjid Merabti, Paul FergusAbstract:Traditionally, securing against environmental threats was the main focus of critical Infrastructure protection. However, the emergence of cyber attacks has changed the focus – Infrastructures are facing a different danger that has life-threatening consequences and the risk of significant economic losses. Clearly, conventional Security techniques are struggling to keep up with the volume of innovative and emerging attacks. Fresh and adaptive Infrastructure Security solutions are required. This paper discusses critical Infrastructures and the digital threats they face, and provides insights into current and future Infrastructure Security strategies.
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Critical Infrastructure Protection - A Survey of Critical Infrastructure Security
Progress in Pattern Recognition Image Analysis Computer Vision and Applications, 2014Co-Authors: William Hurst, Madjid Merabti, Paul FergusAbstract:Traditionally, securing against environmental threats was the main focus of critical Infrastructure protection. However, the emergence of cyber attacks has changed the focus – Infrastructures are facing a different danger that has life-threatening consequences and the risk of significant economic losses. Clearly, conventional Security techniques are struggling to keep up with the volume of innovative and emerging attacks. Fresh and adaptive Infrastructure Security solutions are required. This paper discusses critical Infrastructures and the digital threats they face, and provides insights into current and future Infrastructure Security strategies.
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Using behavioural observation and game technology to support critical Infrastructure Security
International Journal of System of Systems Engineering, 2014Co-Authors: Laura Pla Beltran, Madjid Merabti, William HurstAbstract:Critical Infrastructures provide essential services to our everyday lives. Even a minor failure on any of these systems could result in severe consequences. Therefore, their protection, to ensure correct functioning at all times, is crucial. The fact that these systems do not exist in isolation but rather are closely interconnected with other critical and non-critical systems leads us to take a system-of-systems approach to their Security, taking into account the context they exist in and relationships with other systems. In this paper, a combination of behavioural observation and game technology to enhance critical Infrastructure Security is presented. A simulation is used to construct critical Infrastructure data, and threats to the simulation are identified by modelling system behaviour and identifying changes in patterns of activity. Once threats are identified, our Critical Infrastructure Security Manager (CISM) displays these alerts, together with output from other Security devices, to the user using a game-based interface, and requires some feedback to act upon them. The use of a game-based visualisation allows a better understanding of the system and its current state and, as a result, it enables better informed Security decisions.
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Behaviour analysis techniques for supporting critical Infrastructure Security
International Journal of Critical Infrastructures, 2014Co-Authors: William Hurst, Madjid Merabti, Paul FergusAbstract:Protecting critical Infrastructures from cyber-threats in an increasingly digital age is a matter of growing urgency for governments and private industries across the globe. In a climate where cyber safety is an uncertainty, fresh and adaptive solutions to existing computer Security approaches are a must. In this paper, we present our approach to supporting critical Infrastructure Security. Data is constructed from a critical Infrastructure simulation, developed using Siemens Tecnomatix Plant Simulator and the programming language SimTalk. The data collected from the simulation, when both functioning as normal and during a cyber-attack scenario, is done through the use of observers. By extracting features from the data collected, threats to the system are identified by modelling system behaviour and identifying changes in patterns of activity by using three data classification techniques.
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behavioural observation for critical Infrastructure Security support
European Modelling Symposium, 2013Co-Authors: William Hurst, Madjid Merabti, Paul FergusAbstract:The research presented in this paper offers a way of supporting the Security currently in place in critical Infrastructures by using behavioural observation to add to the Defence in Depth (DiD). Our approach is proactive and continually looks to identify patterns or behaviour, which is out of place in the ordinary operations of the Infrastructure. As this work demonstrates, applying behavioural observation to critical Infrastructure protection has effective results. In this paper, our design for Behavioural Observation for Critical Infrastructure Security Support (BOCISS) is presented. This entails an outline of the system architecture, an explanation of the system modes of operation, the development of a simulation for data construction purposes and the evaluation of our system using our simulated data.
Douglas H Summerville - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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a survey on the application of fpgas for network Infrastructure Security
IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, 2011Co-Authors: Hao Chen, Yu Chen, Douglas H SummervilleAbstract:Given the rapid evolution of attack methods and toolkits, software-based solutions to secure the network Infrastructure have become overburdened. The performance gap between the execution speed of Security software and the amount of data to be processed is ever widening. A common solution to close this performance gap is through hardware implementation of Security functions. Possessing the flexibility of software and high parallelism of hardware, reconfigurable hardware devices, such as Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), have become increasingly popular for this purpose. FPGAs support the performance demands of Security operations as well as enable architectural and algorithm innovations in the future. This paper presents a survey of the state-of-art in FPGA-based implementations that have been used in the network Infrastructure Security area, categorizing currently existing diverse implementations. Combining brief descriptions with intensive case-studies, we hope this survey will inspire more active research in this area.
Madjid Merabti - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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A Survey of Critical Infrastructure Security
2017Co-Authors: William Hurst, Madjid Merabti, Paul FergusAbstract:Traditionally, securing against environmental threats was the main focus of critical Infrastructure protection. However, the emergence of cyber attacks has changed the focus – Infrastructures are facing a different danger that has life-threatening consequences and the risk of significant economic losses. Clearly, conventional Security techniques are struggling to keep up with the volume of innovative and emerging attacks. Fresh and adaptive Infrastructure Security solutions are required. This paper discusses critical Infrastructures and the digital threats they face, and provides insights into current and future Infrastructure Security strategies.
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Critical Infrastructure Protection - A Survey of Critical Infrastructure Security
Progress in Pattern Recognition Image Analysis Computer Vision and Applications, 2014Co-Authors: William Hurst, Madjid Merabti, Paul FergusAbstract:Traditionally, securing against environmental threats was the main focus of critical Infrastructure protection. However, the emergence of cyber attacks has changed the focus – Infrastructures are facing a different danger that has life-threatening consequences and the risk of significant economic losses. Clearly, conventional Security techniques are struggling to keep up with the volume of innovative and emerging attacks. Fresh and adaptive Infrastructure Security solutions are required. This paper discusses critical Infrastructures and the digital threats they face, and provides insights into current and future Infrastructure Security strategies.
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Using behavioural observation and game technology to support critical Infrastructure Security
International Journal of System of Systems Engineering, 2014Co-Authors: Laura Pla Beltran, Madjid Merabti, William HurstAbstract:Critical Infrastructures provide essential services to our everyday lives. Even a minor failure on any of these systems could result in severe consequences. Therefore, their protection, to ensure correct functioning at all times, is crucial. The fact that these systems do not exist in isolation but rather are closely interconnected with other critical and non-critical systems leads us to take a system-of-systems approach to their Security, taking into account the context they exist in and relationships with other systems. In this paper, a combination of behavioural observation and game technology to enhance critical Infrastructure Security is presented. A simulation is used to construct critical Infrastructure data, and threats to the simulation are identified by modelling system behaviour and identifying changes in patterns of activity. Once threats are identified, our Critical Infrastructure Security Manager (CISM) displays these alerts, together with output from other Security devices, to the user using a game-based interface, and requires some feedback to act upon them. The use of a game-based visualisation allows a better understanding of the system and its current state and, as a result, it enables better informed Security decisions.
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Behaviour analysis techniques for supporting critical Infrastructure Security
International Journal of Critical Infrastructures, 2014Co-Authors: William Hurst, Madjid Merabti, Paul FergusAbstract:Protecting critical Infrastructures from cyber-threats in an increasingly digital age is a matter of growing urgency for governments and private industries across the globe. In a climate where cyber safety is an uncertainty, fresh and adaptive solutions to existing computer Security approaches are a must. In this paper, we present our approach to supporting critical Infrastructure Security. Data is constructed from a critical Infrastructure simulation, developed using Siemens Tecnomatix Plant Simulator and the programming language SimTalk. The data collected from the simulation, when both functioning as normal and during a cyber-attack scenario, is done through the use of observers. By extracting features from the data collected, threats to the system are identified by modelling system behaviour and identifying changes in patterns of activity by using three data classification techniques.
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behavioural observation for critical Infrastructure Security support
European Modelling Symposium, 2013Co-Authors: William Hurst, Madjid Merabti, Paul FergusAbstract:The research presented in this paper offers a way of supporting the Security currently in place in critical Infrastructures by using behavioural observation to add to the Defence in Depth (DiD). Our approach is proactive and continually looks to identify patterns or behaviour, which is out of place in the ordinary operations of the Infrastructure. As this work demonstrates, applying behavioural observation to critical Infrastructure protection has effective results. In this paper, our design for Behavioural Observation for Critical Infrastructure Security Support (BOCISS) is presented. This entails an outline of the system architecture, an explanation of the system modes of operation, the development of a simulation for data construction purposes and the evaluation of our system using our simulated data.
Gregory B. White - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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HICSS - Introduction to E-Government Infrastructure Security Minitrack
2013 46th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2013Co-Authors: Rayford B. Vaughn, Arthur Conklin, Gregory B. WhiteAbstract:This is a Minitrack introduction for the e-Government minitrack titled Infrastructure Security
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Introduction to the E-Government Infrastructure Security Minitrack
2012 45th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2012Co-Authors: Gregory B. White, Arthur Conklin, Rayford B. VaughnAbstract:Gregory B. White Wm. Arthur Conklin Rayford B. Vaughn, Jr. Center for Infrastructure Dept of Info & Logistics Tech William L. Giles Distinguished Prof. Assurance and Security College of Technology Associate Vice Pres. Of Research UT-San Antonio University of Houston Dir, Critical Infrastructure Prot. Ctr. greg.white@utsa.edu, waconkli@UH.EDU Mississippi State Univ. MS 39762 vaughn@research.msstate.edu This minitrack examines aspects associated with the Security of information and information technology used by governments and critical Infrastructures (with an emphasis on automated control systems) and explores ways that IT can enhance the ability of governments to ensure the safety and Security of its citizens. This year’s submissions cover a broad spectrum of Security topics including the continued operation of critical systems during an emergency, technology that can be used to better protect industrial control systems, a maturity model designed to help states and communities protect their cyber assets, a method to securely share information between identified entities, and examinations of one of the most common form of cyber attack today, phishing. ICT-enabled City Government Field Operations: Resiliency during Extreme Events proposes recommendations for radically re-thinking extreme event response scenarios through data integration, training and effective use of ICTs, planning and preparedness. Extreme events include both natural and man-made emergencies, disasters, and catastrophes of exceptional unthinkable magnitude, which would surpass the capacity of local government to effectively respond. A Retrofit Network Intrusion Detection System for MODBUS RTU and ASCII Industrial Control Systems discusses the need to retrofit serial based industrial control systems to add Snort intrusion detection and intrusion prevention capabilities. A Grassroots Cyber Security Program to Protect the Nation describes a program centered around a maturity model that is being used to help states and communities develop viable and sustainable cyber Security programs to protect their critical cyber Infrastructures. Seeing the Real World: Sharing Protected Data In Real Time describes a new capability for “owners” of protected data to quickly and securely share real-time data among networked decision-support and real-time control devices with whom the “owners” of the data have explicitly decided to “share” the data. This paper was nominated from this mini-track for consideration of the best paper award. The Influences of Social Networks on Phishing Vulnerability outlines an attempt to reduce the overall success rate of a phishing attack by applying the foundations of social network analysis to identify how social network structures among a military company of future US Army officers can be influential in reducing the spread of a phishing attack. How Could I Fall for That? Exploring Phishing Victimization with the Heuristic-Systematic Model proposes a study on victimization by phishing based on the Heuristic-Systematic Model of information processing. 2012 45th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences