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Protecting Critical Control Systems
Author(s) -
Dickinson Don
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
opflow
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1551-8701
pISSN - 0149-8029
DOI - 10.5991/opf.2014.40.0054
Subject(s) - terrorism , computer security , security controls , critical infrastructure , control (management) , cyber threats , incident response , business , critical infrastructure protection , national security , risk analysis (engineering) , internet privacy , computer science , political science , law , artificial intelligence
Cyber‐security threats, including cyber terrorism, have grown from the esoteric practice of a few specialists to a problem of general concern. National infrastructures have been found to be particularly vulnerable to such attacks. In response to this threat, several standards organizations have produced a wide array of standards and guidelines to help organizations implement security controls to mitigate the risk from cyber‐attacks.