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Modeling Damage Paths and Repairing Objects in Critical Infrastructure Systems

Authors:
Justin Burns
Brajendra Panda
Thanh Bui

Keywords: critical infrastructure; damage assessment; recovery

Abstract:
Recently, critical infrastructure systems have become increasingly vulnerable to attacks on their data systems. If an attacker is successful in breaching a system’s defenses, it is imperative that operations are restored to the system as quickly as possible. This research focuses on damage assessment and recovery following an attack. We review work done in both database protection and critical infrastructure protection. Then, we propose a model using a graph construction to show the cascading affects within a system after an attack. We also present an algorithm that uses our graph to compute an optimal recovery plan that prioritizes the most important damaged components first so that the vital modules of the system become functional as soon as possible. This allows for the most critical operations of a system to resume while recovery for less important components is still being performed.

Pages: 88 to 93

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2021

Publication date: November 14, 2021

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2162-2116

ISBN: 978-1-61208-919-5

Location: Athens, Greece

Dates: from November 14, 2021 to November 18, 2021