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000000101 037__ $$aLERSSE-REPORT-2006-015
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000000101 100__ $$aHafiz Abdur Rahman$$uLaboratory for Education and Research in Secure Systems Engineering, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, University of British Columbia
000000101 100__ $$aKonstantin Beznosov$$uLaboratory for Education and Research in Secure Systems Engineering, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, University of British Columbia
000000101 245__ $$aAssessment of Interdependencies between Communication and Information Technology Infrastructure and other Critical Infrastructures from Public Failure Reports
000000101 260__ $$c2006-02-24
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000000101 520__ $$aFailure in Communication and Information Technology Infrastructure (CITI) can disrupt the effective functionalities of many of the critical infrastructures. Conversely, failures in other infrastructures can also propagate to CITI and hence disrupt the operation of these interconnected systems. Understanding the origin of these failures, their propagation patterns and their impacts can give us important ideas about infrastructure interdependencies and can be used for secure and reliable infrastructure design and operation. In this research we have taken the approach to use public domain failure reports to identify these interdependencies. We have developed a methodology to collect and categorize these reports and defined a set of critical attributes to extract meaningful information from them. Using this approach we have analyzed 12 years of infrastructure failure reports from ACM's RISKS forum. Our results have shown interdependencies between CITI and other critical infrastructures in different dimensions, such as origin of failures, impacts of failures in spatial and temporal dimensions, how they have affected public safety; and how failures have propagated from one infrastructure to another. Results obtained from the analysis of real life failure cases, which happened over a considerable span of time, should be useful for infrastructure researchers and practitioners. This paper also discusses the difficulties while using public domain data in an academic research.
000000101 6531_ $$aCITI
000000101 6531_ $$aSecurity of Critical Infrastructures
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000000101 6531_ $$ainfrastructure interdependcies
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000000101 8564_ $$uhttp://lersse-dl.ece.ubc.ca/record/101/files/101.pdf$$yTransfer from CDS 0.99.7
000000101 909C4 $$pHafiz Abdur Rahman, Konstantin Beznosov, "Assessment of Interdependencies between Communication and Information Technology Infrastructure and other Critical infrastructures from Public Failure Reports," Laboratory for Education and Research in Secure Systems Engineering, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, University of British Columbia, technical report LERSSE-TR-2005-03, 24 February, 2005, pp.34.
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