So What?
Critical infrastructure is vital to the functioning of the United States, and each critical infrastructure sector is dependent on the others. The threat landscape for critical infrastructure has been worsened by new technologies and techniques used to exploit cybersecurity vulnerabilities, potentially causing widespread disruption.
Project Summary
This project will create a tool that can produce risk scores for critical infrastructure sectors, assessing the impact of disruption to different sectors, the vulnerability of each sector, and the capabilities of extremists to bypass security.
Purpose/Objectives
This project will help increase the resilience of critical infrastructure sectors by offering a cross-sectional analysis of sector vulnerabilities and impact.
Method
This research will create a model of extremist threats to critical infrastructure using three dimensions:
- Dimension No. 1 includes experiments to determine civilian reactions to cyber threats on critical infrastructure.
- Dimension No. 2 will use interviews with critical infrastructure professionals and analysis to determine vulnerabilities to each sector.
- Dimension No. 3 will use qualitative methods to identify the knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to conduct cyberattacks on critical infrastructure.
Outputs and Impact
- An interactive model illustrating relative threat to critical infrastructure sectors from extremist and terrorist organizations
- Semi-annual reports
- Research briefs
- A workshop to disseminate findings
 |
Ryan Shandler, Ph.D.
|
 |
Saman Zonouz, Ph.D.
|
 |
Jon Lindsay, Ph.D.
|