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Cyber Crises and Disaster Preparation in Austria: A Survey of Research Projects

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Dynamics of Disasters

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In this paper, we survey some recent applied research and development projects dealing with threat analysis and disaster scenario generation, preparation, management, and training funded by the security-focused funding scheme KIRAS by the Austrian government, which include efforts for the development and execution of serious games in the respective domains. In our analysis, we found multiple lines of multiyear, multi-project activities, which consistently improve and advance the technologies and capabilities available to the affected stakeholders. Based on this review of the state of the art, we identify areas of high-potential interest to direct future applied research and development efforts.

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    The Republic of Austria is a landlocked East Alpine country in the southern part of central Europe and a member of the European Union.

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SBA Research (SBA-K1) is a COMET Center within the framework of COMET – Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies Program – and funded by BMK, BMDW, and the federal state of Vienna. The COMET Program is managed by FFG.

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    Bernhard Garn, Klaus Kieseberg, Dominik Schreiber & Dimitris E. Simos

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Garn, B., Kieseberg, K., Schreiber, D., Simos, D.E. (2021). Cyber Crises and Disaster Preparation in Austria: A Survey of Research Projects. In: Kotsireas, I.S., Nagurney, A., Pardalos, P.M., Tsokas, A. (eds) Dynamics of Disasters. Springer Optimization and Its Applications, vol 169. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64973-9_7

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