The information infrastructure - comprising computers, embedded devices,
networks and software systems - is vital to day-to-day operations in
every sector: information and telecommunications, banking and finance,
energy, chemicals and hazardous materials, agriculture, food, water,
public health, emergency services, transportation, postal and shipping,
government and defense. Global business and industry, governments,
indeed society itself, cannot function effectively if major components
of the critical information infrastructure are degraded, disabled or
destroyed. Critical Infrastructure Protection VIII describes original
research results and innovative applications in the interdisciplinary
field of critical infrastructure protection. Also, it highlights the
importance of weaving science, technology and policy in crafting
sophisticated, yet practical, solutions that will help secure
information, computer and network assets in the various critical
infrastructure sectors. Areas of coverage include: control systems
security, infrastructure security, infrastructure modeling and
simulation, risk and impact assessment, and advanced techniques. This
book is the eighth volume in the annual series produced by the
International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group
11.10 on Critical Infrastructure Protection, an international community
of scientists, engineers, practitioners and policy makers dedicated to
advancing research, development and implementation efforts focused on
infrastructure protection. The book contains a selection of seventeen
edited papers from the 8th Annual IFIP WG 11.10 International Conference
on Critical Infrastructure Protection, held at SRI International,
Arlington, Virginia, DC, USA in the spring of 2014. Critical
Infrastructure Protection VIII is an important resource for researchers,
faculty members and graduate students, as well as for policy makers,
practitioners and other individuals with interests in homeland security.
