Received:
2020-03-18 | Accepted:
2020-07-10 | Published:
2020-12-30
Title
Cyber security management of critical energy infrastructure in national cybersecurity strategies: cases of USA, UK, France, Estonia and Lithuania
Abstract
The progresses made in terms of cybersecurity in these past years have been huge, and the implementation of newer strategies has brought interesting results all over the globe. However, the full implementation of cybersecurity presents a challenge to a lot of countries, especially if considered the Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP), which is still one of the areas with the most gaps in terms of cybersecurity. In this article, the first five countries by cybersecurity level according to the Global Cybersecurity Index (GCI) 2018, in order UK, USA, France, Estonia and Lithuania, will be evaluated for their solutions in terms of Critical Infrastructure Protection. The results will show the effective accuracy of the index and will shed light on the various approaches to Critical Infrastructure Protection.
Keywords
cybersecurity, critical infrastructure protection, management, energy security, cyber attack
JEL classifications
M15
, Q48
URI
http://jssidoi.org/ird/article/54
DOI
HAL
Pages
802-813
Funding
This research is/was funded by the European Social Fund under the No 09.3.3-LMT-K-712 "Development of Competences of Scientists, other Researchers and Students through Practical Research Activities" measure.
This is an open access issue and all published articles are licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Journal title
Insights into Regional Development
Volume
2
Number
4
Issue date
December 2020
Issue DOI
ISSN
ISSN 2345-0282 (online)
Publisher
VšĮ Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Center, Vilnius, Lithuania
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