Critical Infrastructure Protection XIV

Critical infrastructure security spans far more than one network or control room. In Critical Infrastructure Protection XIV, editors Jason Staggs and Sujeet Shenoi bring together research on the connected systems behind aviation, vehicles, telecommunications, industrial operations, and other essential infrastructure.

This proceedings collection offers a focused way to explore how researchers approach threats across both cyber and physical domains—from securing air-traffic surveillance and unmanned aircraft to restoring SCADA systems and analyzing risks across interconnected infrastructure.

Six domains, one connected security challenge

The volume is organized into six subject areas: aviation infrastructure security, vehicle infrastructure security, telecommunications systems security, industrial control systems security, cyber-physical systems security, and infrastructure modeling and simulation. That structure makes it possible to compare problems and approaches across sectors rather than treating each system as an isolated case.

Research on systems under pressure

Topics include blockchain authentication for vehicular ad-hoc networks, intrusion detection in cyber-physical systems, data-fragmentation approaches to telecommunications security, vulnerability assessment of building management systems, and forensic investigation of a hacked industrial robot. Other papers examine secure state restoration for SCADA, distributed attack detection, and safety-security risk analysis for interconnected infrastructure.

From individual systems to wider networks

The modeling and simulation section broadens the perspective to risk analysis for cities and interconnected infrastructure, as well as telecommunications-infrastructure modeling. Taken together, the papers show the range of technical questions involved when networks, software, embedded devices, and physical processes are interdependent.

A research-led reference for security professionals

As revised selected papers from the 2020 IFIP WG 11.10 conference, this volume is suited to researchers, graduate students, engineers, cybersecurity practitioners, and policy readers interested in critical infrastructure protection. Its value lies in the variety of specific investigations: readers can follow a topic within one sector or use the collection to see how security concerns recur across different kinds of essential systems.