Zubair Baig1, Sherali Zeadally2
Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.25, No.1, pp. 121-129, 2019, DOI:10.31209/2018.100000049
Abstract A critical infrastructure provides essential services to a nation’s population.
Interruptions in its smooth operations are highly undesirable because they will
cause significant and devastating consequences on all stakeholders in the
society. In order to provide sustained protection to a nation’s critical
infrastructure, we must continually assess and evaluate the risks thereof. We
propose a risk assessment framework that can evaluate the risks posed to the
security of a critical infrastructure from threat agents, with a special emphasis
on the smart grid communications infrastructure. The framework defines finegrained risk identification to help quantify and assess More >