Cyber Warfare and Critical Infrastructure Security
(Room Rheinsaal 6)
29 Jun 17
9:00 AM
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10:30 AM
Tracks:
Track B - Mastering the Digital Era
The need to access to the information in a fast and reliable way has become an inevitable and urgent requirement within the scope of technological advances. Both the need of accessing to the information and the necessity to protect the information from malware and attackers, emphasize once more that the information security and cyber defense should be underlined with great attention. Today, the number of the systems which do not interact with IT infrastructure is quite insignificant. Critical infrastructures are managed centrally by using IT infrastructure. Systems that directly or indirectly interact with the Internet are faced with the risks of information security. Security of critical infrastructures has become a main problem on its own. The notion of cyber-attacks is generally perceived as premeditated disruptive activities against computer networks, computer programs and data to create chaos and impair functioning infrastructures. Despite significant investment in technology and infrastructure, cyber-attacks represent one of the greatest challenges in information security. Cyber-attacks primarily pose threats to Internet-based applications and can disable a country’s power or other assets which are connected to the Internet. By penetrating computer systems that control the energy and other basic services in a country, cyber-attacks can bring down a national service, causing serious cascading effects to create chaos and destabilize a country. Cyber-attacks do not pose a direct threat to infrastructures that are completely isolated from the internet but these infrastructures may be vulnerable to cyber sabotage (e.g. manual importing of virus). With this article, importance of the information and critical infrastructure security and cyber defense will be discussed by proposing solutions against cyber-attacks and possible cyber-attacks regarding the preventive enterprise applications and security of critical infrastructures like power generation and SCADA systems.