Empirical Findings on Critical Infrastructure Dependencies in Europe

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Luiijf, H.A.M.

Nieuwenhuijs, A.H.

Klaver, M.H.A.

Eeten, M. van

Cruz, E.
One type of threat consistently identified as a key challenge for Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) is that of cascading effects caused by dependencies and interdependencies across different critical infrastructures (CI) and their services. This paper draws on a hitherto untapped data source on infrastructure dependencies: a daily maintained database containing over 2375 serious incidents in different CI all over the world as reported by news media. In this paper we analyse this data to discover patterns in CI failures in Europe like cascades, dependencies, and interdependencies. Some analysis results indicate that less sectors than many dependency models suggest drive cascading outages and that cascading effects due to interdependencies are hardly reported.
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Critical infrastructure protectionCascading effectsCritical infrastructures dependenciesData basesIncidents
TNO Identifier
242067
Repository link
https://resolver.tno.nl/uuid:24ef39b6-de5f-46eb-8bcf-df0e70c29b99
Publisher
Springer
Source title
Critical Information Infrastructure Security : Third International Workshop, CRITIS 2008, Rome, Italy, October13-15, 2008
Editor(s)
Setola, R.
Geretshuber, S.
Place of publication
Berlin : [etc.]
Pages
302-310
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