CIPSEC-Enhancing Critical Infrastructure Protection with Innovative Security Framework
Antonio Álvarez, Rubén Trapero, Denis A. Guilhot, Ignasi García-Mila, Francisco Hernandez, Eva Marín‐Tordera, Jordi Forné, Xavi Masip‐Bruin, Neeraj Suri, Markus Heinrich, Stefan Katzenbeisser, Manos Athanatos, Sotiris Ioannidis, Leonidas Kallipolitis, Ilias Spais, Apostolos P. Fournaris, Konstantinos Lampropoulos · River Publishers eBooks · 2022
In the recent years, the majority of the world’s Critical Infrastructures (CIs) have evolved to be more flexible, cost efficient and able to offer better services and conditions for business growth. Through this evolution, CIs and companies offering CI services had to adopt many of the recent advances of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) field. This rapid adaptation however, was performed without thorough evaluation of its impact on CIs’ security. It resulted into leaving CIs vulnerable to a new set of threats and vulnerabilities that impose high levels of risk to the public safety, economy and welfare of the population. To this extend, the main approach for protecting CIs includes handling them as comprehensive entities and offer a complete solution for their overall infrastructures and ICT systems (IT&OT departments). However, complete CI security solutions exist, in the form of individual products from IT security companies. These products, integrate only in-house designed and developed tools/solutions, thus offering a limited range of technical solutions.