Critical Infrastructure Protection: Towards a Design Theory for Resilient Software-Intensive Systems

Modern societies are highly dependent on different critical software-intensive information systems that support society. Designing security for these information systems has been particularly challenging since the technologies that make up these systems. Revolutionary advances in hardware, networking, information and human interface technologies require new ways of thinking about how these resilient software-intensive systems (SIS) are conceptualized, built and evaluated. Our research in this area is to develop a design theory (DT) for resilient SISs so that communities developing and operating different information technologies can share knowledge and best practices using a common frame of reference.