Autonomic risk management for critical infrastructure protection

Issue title: Autonomous Computing

Guest editors: Elizabeth Chang, Manish Parashar, Roy Sterritt, Huaglory Tianfield and Rainer Unland

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Ulieru, Mihaela^{; *} | Worthington, Paul

Affiliations: Emergent Information Systems Laboratory, The University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N/1N4. E-mail: Ulieru@ucalgary.ca

Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author.

Abstract: The purpose of this work is to develop an adaptive risk management framework capable to prevent, identify and respond in critical time to threats. Our focus is on protecting critical infrastructure (e.g. public utilities) which vitally depends on network and information security. As solution we propose a holonic Cybersecurity system that unfolds into an emergency response management infrastructure capable to react in due time to unknown and new kinds of attacks/threats. The system can adapt to its changing environment through its self-organizing capability. Mimicking the way immunity works in biological organisms the system can dynamically adapt to embrace new risk situations and can dynamically create and learn new risk models as it encounters new risk situations.

DOI: 10.3233/ICA-2006-13105

Journal: Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 63-80, 2006