An All-Hazard Approach for the Vulnerability Analysis of Critical Infrastructures

In this paper, a framework is proposed for the All-HAZard ANalysis (A-HAZAN) of Critical In-frastructures (CIs). Starting from the identification of the task of each component in the infrastructure, we use tabular procedures to organize the information on the susceptibility to attacks, to single and cascading fail-ures. All variables and states are identified that may impact on the component's role as a possible source of vulnerability within the CI and towards interdependent CIs. This is a starting point for a quantitative evalua-tion of the degree of exposure to intentional acts. A case study of literature is taken as an exemplary demon-stration of the procedures of the analysis.

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