SAFEGUARDING ELECTRICITY CYBER-INFRASTRUCTURES AGAINST THE WORM THREAT

Large Complex Critical Infrastructures (LCCIs) play a key role in modern life, providing services such as telecommunications, electricity, gas and water within and between countries. In recent years, far-reaching changes has been made on these infrastructures such as increased dependence on IP networks, increased use of commercial off the shelf software such as Windows, increased import and export of electrical power and increased use of renewable energy supplies. These infrastructures are now highly interconnected and interdependent. This has made them more vulnerable to attacks, failures and accidents. Now a major security incident also has the potential to affect the management network of critical infrastructures, potentially disabling them so that the operators lose control of the network.