Handbook on Securing Cyber-Physical Critical Infrastructure

Securing Cyber-Physical Infrastructure: Perspectives and Overview of the Handbook

I-1 Introduction

Modern society depends on sophisticated infrastructures to carry out its day-to-day activities. Such infrastructures includes buildings (e.g., homes, factories, offices, schools, shopping malls, etc.), utility networks (e.g., electricity, water, gas, sewage, etc.), transportation networks (e.g., roads, railroads and stations, harbors, shipping channels and yards, airports, etc.), transport vehicles (trains, planes, buses, etc.), food and goods distribution networks, healthcare delivery systems, information technology (IT) networks, and so on. Efficient management of these physical and/or cyber infrastructures not only involves sophisticated control ...