CRITICAL UTILITY INFRASTRUCTURAL RESILIENCE

Giovanna Dondossola (1) , Geert Deconinck (2) , Felicita Di Giandomenico (3) , Susanna Donatelli (4) , Mohamed Kaâniche (5) , Paulo Verissimo (6)

1 CESI RICERCA
2 KU Leuven - Catholic University of Leuven = Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
3 CNR | ISTI - CNR Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione “A. Faedo” [Pisa]
4 CNIT - Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Telecomunicazioni [Roma]
5 LAAS-TSF - Équipe Tolérance aux fautes et Sûreté de Fonctionnement informatique
6 University of Lisboa

The paper refers to CRUTIAL , CRitical UTility InfrastructurAL Resilience, a European project within the research area of Critical Information Infrastructure Protection, with a specific focus on the infrastructures operated by power utilities, widely recognized as fundamental to national and international economy, security and quality of life. Such infrastructures faced with the recent market deregulations and the multiple interdependencies with other infrastructures are becoming more and more vulnerable to various threats, including accidental failures and deliberate sabotage and malicious attacks. The subject of CRUTIAL research are small scale networked ICT systems used to control and manage the electric power grid, in which artifacts controlling the physical process of electricity transportation need to be connected with corporate and societal applications performing management and maintenance functionality. The peculiarity of such ICT-supported systems is that they are related to the power system dynamics and its emergency conditions. Specific effort need to be devoted by the Electric Power community and by the Information Technology community to influence the technological progress in order to allow commercial intelligent electronic devices to be effectively deployed for the protection of citizens against cyber threats to electric power management and control systems. A well-founded know-how needs to be built inside the industrial power sector to allow all the involved stakeholders to achieve their service objectives without compromising the resilience properties of the logical and physical assets that support the electric power provision.

Mots clés: infrastructure interdependencies; power control system protection; system analysis and model development; resilient control architectures

Domaines: Performance et fiabilité [cs.PF]

Giovanna Dondossola, Geert Deconinck, Felicita Di Giandomenico, Susanna Donatelli, Mohamed Kaâniche, et al.. CRITICAL UTILITY INFRASTRUCTURAL RESILIENCE. International Workshop on Complex Network and Infrastructure Protection (CNIP-06), Mar 2006, Rome, Italy. 12 p. ⟨hal-00756964⟩