Emerging and future cyber threats to critical systems

Authors:
Edita Djambazova;Magnus Almgren;Kiril Dimitrov;Erland Jonsson
Affiliations:
Institute for Parallel Processing, BAS, Sofia, Bulgaria;Chalmers University, Göteborg, Sweden;Institute for Parallel Processing, BAS, Sofia, Bulgaria;Chalmers University, Göteborg, Sweden
Venue:
iNetSec'10 Proceedings of the 2010 IFIP WG 11.4 international conference on Open research problems in network security
Year:
2010

Citing 2
Cited 0

Security in wireless sensor networks

Communications of the ACM - Wireless sensor networks
Security and Privacy in Sensor Networks

Computer

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.00

Visualization

Abstract

This paper discusses the emerging and future cyber threats to critical systems identified during the EU/FP7 project ICT-FORWARD. Threats were identified after extensive discussions with both domain experts and IT security professionals from academia, industry, and government organizations. The ultimate goal of the work was to identify the areas in which cyber threats could occur and cause serious and undesirable consequences, based on the characteristics of critical systems. A model of a critical system is suggested and used to distill a list of cyber threats specific to such systems. The impact of the identified threats is illustrated by an example scenario in order to stress the risks and consequences that the materialization of such threats could entail. Finally, we discuss possible solutions and security measures that could be developed and implemented to mitigate the situation.