Protecting Critical Infrastructures - Workshop

Critical infrastructures are essential for the functioning of a society and its
economy. They are often found in industrial production, as well as energy,
telecommunication, transports, water supply, agriculture, and other sectors.
Information Infrastructures have become a key building block of virtually all
Critical Infrastructures (CIs) which are in operation and under construction
today. As such, Critical Information Infrastructure Protection (CIIP), i.e. the
design of policies and strategies for guaranteeing resilient (both to faults and
attacks) operation of Critical Information Infrastructures (CIIs), is receiving a
growing attention. The objective of this workshop is to present to the CI
operations stakeholders the results obtained by the INSPIRE
(http://www.inspire-strep.eu/) project, aimed at developing novel techniques
to protect communications of SCADA systems which are a core component of CI.
These techniques allow to harden existing legacy systems, as well as design a new
generation of systems, more secure and resilient right from design.