Extensible threat taxonomy for critical infrastructures

H.A.M. Luiijf and A.H. Nieuwenhuijs

International Journal of Critical Infrastructures, 2008, vol. 4, issue 4, 409-417

Abstract: The European Union-sponsored project Vital Infrastructure Threats and Assurance (VITA) has the objective of exploring and showing new paths in Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) R&D. This paper describes one of VITA's results: the idea and the development of a novel extensible and generic threat taxonomy for Critical Infrastructures (CIs). Over 300 threats have been categorised. The threat taxonomy makes a sharp distinction between threats, threat cause categories (nature, human or both) and human intent. It is shown that activism, sabotage and terror threats should be regarded as an expression of human intent combined with other existing threats. The taxonomy helps to select in a balanced way all the all-hazard threats which may threaten existing CIs.

Keywords: critical infrastructures; CIs; infrastructure protection; threat taxonomy; risk; activism; sabotage; terrorism; human intent; infrastructure threats; infrastructure assurance; terror threats; hazards. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=20159 (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ids:ijcist:v:4:y:2008:i:4:p:409-417

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in International Journal of Critical Infrastructures from Inderscience Enterprises Ltd
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sarah Parker ().