Abstract
Deriving value judgements about threat rankings for large and entangled systems, such as those of urban smart grids, is a challenging task. Suitable approaches should account for multiple threat events posed by different classes of attackers who target system components. Given the complexity of the task, a suitable level of guidance for ranking more relevant and filtering out the less relevant threats is desirable. This requires a method able to distill the list of all possible threat events in a traceable and repeatable manner, given a set of assumptions about the attackers. The Threat Navigator proposed in this paper tackles this issue. Attacker profiles are described in terms of Focus (linked to Actor-to-Asset relations) and Capabilities (Threat-to-Threat dependencies). The method is demonstrated on a sample urban Smart Grid. The ranked list of threat events obtained is useful for a risk analysis that ultimately aims at finding cost-effective mitigation strategies.
Original language | Undefined |
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Title of host publication | 1st EAI International Conference on Smart Grid Inspired Future |
Place of Publication | London |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 184-192 |
Number of pages | 8 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-3-319-47729-9 |
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Publication status | Published - May 2016 |
Event | 1st EAI International Conference on Smart Grid Inspired Future, SmartGift 2016 - Liverpool, United Kingdom Duration: 19 May 2016 → 20 May 2016 Conference number: 1 http://smartgiftconf.org/2016/ |
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Publisher | Springer Verlag |
Conference
Conference | 1st EAI International Conference on Smart Grid Inspired Future, SmartGift 2016 |
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Abbreviated title | SmartGift |
Country/Territory | United Kingdom |
City | Liverpool |
Period | 19/05/16 → 20/05/16 |
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Keywords
- SCS-Cybersecurity
- IR-100453
- METIS-316929
- EWI-27019