Critical Information Infrastructure Protection and Resilience in the ICT Sector

With the progression of technological breakthroughs creating dependencies on telecommunications, the internet, and social networks connecting our society, CIIP (Critical Information Infrastructure Protection) has gained significant focus in order to avoid cyber attacks, cyber hazards, and a general breakdown of services. Critical Information Infrastructure Protection and Resilience in the ICT Sector brings together a variety of empirical research on the resilience in the ICT sector and critical information infrastructure protection in the context of uncertainty and lack of data about potential threats and hazards. This book presents a variety of perspectives on computer science, economy, risk analysis, and social sciences; beneficial to academia, governments, and other organisations engaged or interested in CIIP, Resilience and Emergency Preparedness in the ICT sector.

Paul Théron, MSc, is a member of the ENISAs Permanent Stakeholders Group, DG JRCs ERNCIP Group on ICS and SmartGrid Cyber Security, and Business Continuity Institute. He co-founded the French National Council for Business Continuity in 2009 and runs Thales Cyber Resilience Studies Team where he is in charge of studies on ICT resilience. His contributions include reports for ARCEP (2011), ENISA (2011), and European Commission (2010). His research focuses on the dynamic transformation of the {incident ; organisations integrity ; organisations response} state space under critical circumstances. He is a regular invited lecturer on Critical Infrastructure Resilience at Poitiers Faculty of Science, Aix-Marseille University; Mines ParisTech, French Ecole de Guerre, and Institut National des Hautes Etudes de la Sécurité et de la Justice in Paris. He participates in ISO TC223 and NATOs NIAG standardisation work streams on cyber resilience, business continuity and Command & Control.

Sandro Bologna received the degree in Physics from the University of Rome La Sapienza. He has more than 40 years experience with the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA) and abroad, where he has covered different positions as Researcher, Head of Research Units, Head of Research Projects at national and international levels. His main research activities deal with the achievement and assessment of computer based system safety and reliability, large networks vulnerability analysis, critical infrastructure protection and resilience. In this field he has co-authored several scientific publications and books and served in the editorial board of different international journals, among others the International Journal of Critical Infrastructures. In the year 2011 he has been serving as General Co-Chair of the 6th International Conference on Critical Information Infrastructures Security (CRITIS 2011) and of the 30th International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability, and Security (SAFECOMP 2011). At present (2012) he is the President of the Italian Association of Critical Infrastructures Experts, and Experts Group Member of the European Reference Network for Critical Infrastructure Protection.