Features of Ensuring Cybersecurity of the Critical Infrastructure of the State

Y Danyk,T Maliarchuk,Ch Briggs

doi:10.20535/tacs.2664-29132020.1.209484

Abstract

One of the most important tasks of national security in modern conditions is to ensure the security and stable functioning of critical infrastructure of the state. Control systems are an integral and most vulnerable part of critical infrastructure facilities. This determines the importance of ensuring they are protected from destructive cyber actions. Destructive cyber actions in it is accompanied, as a rule, by chain effects and synergistic effects that systematically influence and cover all other spheres of the life of society and the state, both in ordinary and, especially, in critical conditions. The authors systematically and comprehensively analyzed and presented in the article the results of investigations of the features of destructive cyber actions in the critical infrastructure of state, counteracting them and protecting from them.

Highlights

In high tech conflicts of any intensity, hostilities and other actions, mainly economic, political, diplomatic, informational, psychological, cyber, cognitive, etc. [1], are mutually coordinated according to a single plan
Thanks to the use of innovative technologies, it became possible to shift conflict from predominantly overt and forceful means [2], to less obvious strategies focused on the structural vulnerabilities critical infrastructure and society of adversaries in cyberspace
The targeting of critical infrastructure is an effective Features of protecting the critical infrasway to increase vulnerability of a state or society, while tructure of the state from destructive cysignaling to other potential adversaries their own vul- ber impact in modern conditions nerabilities and the potential to cripple large sectors of the economy

Summary

Introduction inflicting physical damage on nuclear fuel centrifuges

In high tech conflicts of any intensity, hostilities (operations) and other (non-force) actions, mainly economic, political, diplomatic, informational, psychological, cyber, cognitive, etc. [1], are mutually coordinated according to a single plan. For countries representatives of an ecosystem, are crucial to its ef- such as Ukraine, with its traumatic experience of the fective functioning In social systems, these critical Chernobyl disaster in 1986, the links between energy nodes may be key individuals or centers of community security and government legitimacy may be even more activity, which provide a focus in connection between fragile. The destructive geopolitical actors resilience of energy systems has focused on preventing (DGAs - the destructive geopolitical actors are states, cascading failures in electrical networks, where failure terrorist organizations or groups of people conducting of a few critical nodes propagates blackouts over large attacks against national security of the state) have been geographic areas, as witnessed numerous times in North willingly and diverse to use the cyberspace of Ukraine. Energy sector are strategically important objects and must function continuously and qualitatively [16]

Analysis of Cyber Effects on Objects of

Conclusions pects of creation and application of complex cyber range