Cyber Resilience in Critical Infrastructure

Critical infrastructure sectors are those whose assets, systems, and networks, whether physical or virtual, are deemed so important to nations that their incapacitation or destruction would have a crippling effect on national security, national economic security, national public health or safety, or any combination of these. Each country might define their unique critical infrastructure. In this book, we compiled nine critical infrastructure sectors: Emergency Services, Energy, Finance, Food, Government, Health, Telecommunications, Transport, and Water. The continuity of services in these sectors is vital for the daily lives of societies and economies. This study introduces 49 case studies from various parts of the world.

This book investigates Cyber Resilience in Critical Infrastructure by paying attention to recommending a national-level cyber resilience framework for all nations to use. Furthermore, we present sectoral analysis and case studies for each infrastructure by going through an in-depth analysis. As military tensions grow in many parts of the world, nations are alarmed and focused on their national cyber resilience, especially the reliability of their critical infrastructure. We believe this book will be a popular reference and guidebook for a wide range of readers worldwide, from governments to policymakers, from industry to the finance sector, and many others.

Dr Sinan Küfeoğlu is working as a Senior Policy Manager at the Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (Ofgem), HM Government. Previously he worked at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, University of Cambridge, and University College London. He led the research collaboration between Cambridge and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in preparing recommendations for boosting the digital resilience of critical infrastructure. He was an adviser at the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) for integrating United Nations Sustainable Development Goals into university education and provided consultancy to the World Bank in the field of application of Machine Learning in electric power system.

Dr Küfeoğlu completed his D.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering at Aalto University, Finland in 2015 and 2011 respectively. He got his B.Sc. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department from Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey in 2009. His research interests include energy futures, sustainable development, energy economics, and technology policy.

Abdullah Talip Akgün is a Treasury Analyst at QNB Finansbank with a strong background in finance, consulting, sustainable development, and political science. He holds a B.A. degree in Political Science and International Relations from Boğaziçi University in Türkiye. Abdullah has demonstrated his entrepreneurial spirit by founding Educabee, an education consultancy startup that achieved remarkable success. His experience extends to contributing to several research projects, such as the Emerging Technologies: Value Creation for Sustainable Development initiative as part of the International Fellowship for Outstanding Researchers Programme.