TY - GEN
T1 - Impact assessment of cyber attacks
T2 - 11th Systems of Systems Engineering Conference, SoSE 2016
AU - Tatar, Unal
AU - Bahsi, Hayretdin
AU - Gheorghe, Adrian
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 IEEE.
PY - 2016/8/12
Y1 - 2016/8/12
N2 - Vulnerability of critical infrastructures have increased with widespread use of information technologies. Although individual hackers whose major aims are self-satisfaction and financial gain are already on the stage, nation sponsored attacks are considered as important threats after Stuxnet attack. An important intention of targeted attacks by nation states may be the degradation of cyber physical systems of their enemies. After these developments, cyber-Attacks have become an agenda item of the academics, practitioners and policy makers. In this study, we employed Monte-Carlo reliability analysis technique to quantify the impact of cyber-Attacks on industrial control systems used in power generation systems. Economic value of cyber-Attacks can help decision makers to decide if a cyber-security investment is feasible or not. The results showed that cyber-Attacks may have significant impact on reliability of power generation systems.
AB - Vulnerability of critical infrastructures have increased with widespread use of information technologies. Although individual hackers whose major aims are self-satisfaction and financial gain are already on the stage, nation sponsored attacks are considered as important threats after Stuxnet attack. An important intention of targeted attacks by nation states may be the degradation of cyber physical systems of their enemies. After these developments, cyber-Attacks have become an agenda item of the academics, practitioners and policy makers. In this study, we employed Monte-Carlo reliability analysis technique to quantify the impact of cyber-Attacks on industrial control systems used in power generation systems. Economic value of cyber-Attacks can help decision makers to decide if a cyber-security investment is feasible or not. The results showed that cyber-Attacks may have significant impact on reliability of power generation systems.
KW - cyber-Attacks
KW - Monte-Carlo reliability analysis
KW - power system reliability
KW - SCADA systems
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U2 - 10.1109/SYSOSE.2016.7542959
DO - 10.1109/SYSOSE.2016.7542959
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84985961121
T3 - 2016 11th Systems of Systems Engineering Conference, SoSE 2016
BT - 2016 11th Systems of Systems Engineering Conference, SoSE 2016
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 12 June 2016 through 16 June 2016
ER -