Wide-Area Situational Awareness for Critical Infrastructure Protection

Author

Alcaraz, Cristina ; Lopez, J.

Author_Institution

Univ. of Malaga, Malaga, Spain

Volume

46

Issue

4

fYear

2013

fDate

Apr-13

Firstpage

30

Lastpage

37

Abstract

Despite successive attempts to protect critical infrastructures against incidents and malicious threats by using traditional situational awareness solutions, the complex and critical nature of these infrastructures makes this adaptation difficult. For this reason, experts are reconsidering the topic of Wide-Area Situational Awareness (WASA) to provide monitoring of performance at all times from anywhere while ensuring dynamic prevention and response services. Given the novelty of this new research field, a WASA methodological framework together with a set of requirements for awareness construction are presented in this paper in order to help in the development and commissioning of future WASA defense solutions.

Keywords

critical infrastructures; WASA defense solutions; WASA methodological framework; critical infrastructure protection; wide-area situational awareness; Complex networks; Computer security; Context awareness; Control systems; Integrated circuits; Knowledge management; Monitoring; context awareness; critical infrastructure protection; cybersecurity; situational awareness;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computer

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9162

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MC.2013.72

Filename

6471709