March 2015
Intermediate to advanced
816 pages
36h 46m
English
The objective of this chapter is to introduce the idea of resilience engineering where systems are designed to withstand adverse external events such as operator errors and cyberattacks. When you have read this chapter, you will:
understand the differences between resilience, reliability, and security and why resilience is important for networked systems;
be aware of the fundamental issues in building resilient systems, namely, recognition of problems, resistance to failures and attacks, recovery of critical services, and system reinstatement;
understand why resilience is a sociotechnical rather than a technical issue and the role of system operators and managers in providing resilience;
have been introduced ...
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