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Critical Infrastructure Protection: A Holistic Methodology for Greece

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Security of Industrial Control Systems and Cyber-Physical Systems (CyberICPS 2016)

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The protection of Critical Infrastructures (CI) is, by definition, of high importance for the welfare of citizens, due to direct threats (dictated by the current international political situation) and also due to their dependencies at international and European levels. Today, Greece remains one of the countries of the European Union, which has no comprehensive strategy to safeguard national CI, nor any process of developing such an integrated plan, except for some initiatives taken from the General Secretariat of Digital Policy. This paper aims to contribute to: (i) The creation of an inventory of all stakeholders, (legislative, supervisory or regulatory) involved in CI protection in Greece, (ii) the identification of potential national CI, as well as their interdependencies, (iii) the development of a structured identification based on impact assessment methodology for national CI, that takes into account internationally applied CI assessment methodologies, and (iv) provide a pilot implementation of the proposed methodology.

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    All OLIKY project deliverables (in Greek) can be found at: http://www.dianeosis.org/2016/07/ideas_infrastractures_protection/.

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Acknowledgments

This work was performed within the OLIKY project framework. OLIKY was coordinated by the INFOSEC Laboratory (Athens University of Economics & Business) and funded by diaNEOsis, a non-government and non-profit research and analysis organization, located in Greece. The opinions expressed herein are those of the authors.

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  1. Information Security and Critical Infrastructure Protection Laboratory, Department of Informatics, Athens University of Economics and Business, 76 Patission Avenue, 10434, Athens, Greece

    Dimitris Gritzalis, George Stergiopoulos & Georgia Lykou

  2. Department of Informatics, University of Piraeus, 85 Karaoli & Dimitriou Street, 18534, Piraeus, Greece

    Panayiotis Kotzanikolaou

  3. Department of Informatics, Ionian University, 7 Tsirigoti Square, 49100, Corfu, Greece

    Emmanouil Magkos

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  3. Telecom Bretagne, Cesson Sevigne , France

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Gritzalis, D., Stergiopoulos, G., Kotzanikolaou, P., Magkos, E., Lykou, G. (2017). Critical Infrastructure Protection: A Holistic Methodology for Greece. In: Cuppens-Boulahia, N., Lambrinoudakis, C., Cuppens, F., Katsikas, S. (eds) Security of Industrial Control Systems and Cyber-Physical Systems. CyberICPS 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10166. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61437-3_2

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