Handbook on Securing Cyber-Physical Critical Infrastructure

Chapter 22

Managing and Securing Critical Infrastructure – A Semantic Policy- and Trust-Driven Approach¹

Wenjia Li, Palanivel Kodeswaran, Pramod Jagtap, Anupam Joshi and Tim Finin

22.1 Introduction

As the world has become more developed, industrialized, and globalized, its reliance on critical physical and cyber infrastructure has increased. This infrastructure includes many systems such as electrical power generation and distribution, roads, bridges and tunnels that make up our ground transportation system, airports and air traffic control supporting airline transportation, communication networks, both wired and wireless, systems for storing and distributing water and food supplies, medical and health-care delivery systems, and financial, banking, ...