The 2nd ECSCI Workshop on

Critical Infrastructure Protection

Virtual workshop, on Google Meet conference room,

27 April 2022, 09:00-18:00 CEST

28 April 2022, 09:00-17:00 CEST

29 April 2022, 09:00-17:00 CEST

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Keynote Speakers

Roberto Cascella

Dr. Athanasios Drougkas

Georgios Giannopoulos

Organizing Committee

Habtamu Abie, Norsk Regnesentral, Norway

Ilias Gkotsis, SATWAYS, Greece

Lorenzo Lodi, Zanasi & Partners, Italy

Rita Ugarelli, SINTEF, Norway

Manos Athanatos, ICS-FORTH, Greece

Denis Čaleta, Institute for Corporate Security Studies, Slovenia

Ana Maria Morales Perez, Atos, Spain

Scope

Modern Critical Infrastructures (CI) are becoming increasingly complex, turning into distributed, large-scale cyber-physical systems or becoming more and more interconnected and interdependent to other CIs. Cyber-physical attacks are increasing in number, scope, and sophistication, making it difficult to be prepared for them and predict their total impact. Thus, addressing cyber security and physical security separately is no longer effective, but more integrated approaches that consider both physical and cyber-security risks, along with their interrelationships, interactions, and cascading effects, are needed to face the challenge of combined cyber-physical or even hybrid attacks.

This workshop will present the different approaches on integrated cyber and physical security in different industrial sectors, such as energy, transport, drinking and waste water, health, digital infrastructure, banking and financial market, space and public administration . The peculiarities of critical infrastructure protection in each one of these sectors will be discussed and addressed by the different projects of the ECSCI cluster that will present their outcomes, discussing the technical, ethical and societal aspects and the underlying technologies.

Specifically, novel techniques will be presented for integrated security modelling, IoT security, artificial intelligence for securing critical infrastructures, distributed ledger technologies for security information sharing and increased automation for detection, prevention and mitigation measures.

The workshop will include keynote speeches, 23 projects presentations, roundtable and panel discussions, and thematic presentations. It is intended for scientists and experts in the field of critical infrastructure protection, CISOs, CIOs, CERTs, CSIRTs, CSOs, cyber and physical security experts representing different sector and policy makers for critical infrastructure protection.

The workshop will foresee several presentations addressing the following issues:

Mitigation of combined physical and cyber threats
New regulatory challenges
Ethical and legal aspects of security
Combating Hybrid Threats to Critical Infrastructures
Cyber and Physical Detection
Cyber-Physical Security integration and modelling
Increased automation for detection, prevention and mitigation measures
Dynamic Safety and Security Risk Assessment
Information and knowledge sharing environment and respective rules
Standards, certifications and Regulations on the Protection of Critical Infrastructures
Common Platform for Cascading Effects on the Different Critical Infrastructures
Combined Safety and Security for European Critical Infrastructures
Cyber Security Awareness

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