Received:
2020-03-15 | Accepted:
2020-07-15 | Published:
2020-09-30
Title
Cyber-attacks to critical energy infrastructure and management issues: overview of selected cases
Abstract
The purpose of the paper is to analyze the vulnerabilities of Critical Energy Infrastructures’ systems in the event of cyber-attack. The global tendency of cyber-attacks puts Critical Energy Infrastructures on one of the first places for targets. Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) has become an increasingly relevant topic in the global industrial environment, as the consequences of cyber-attacks toward ICS can result in physical disruption and loss of human lives. The analysis presented in the paper will take into consideration three different case scenarios of cyber-attacks to Critical Energy Infrastructures, and will evaluate the outcomes and the tactics used by the organizations’ response and recovery.
Keywords
critical infrastructure, management, cyber-attack, energy security, cybersecurity
JEL classifications
M15
, Q48
URI
http://jssidoi.org/ird/article/47
DOI
HAL
Pages
703-715
Funding
This research was partly supported by the project, which has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 830892
This is an open access issue and all published articles are licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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