The relevance, importance and dependence of critical infrastructures of the Islamic Republic of Iran from a cyber perspective

Abstract :

In recent years, cyber attacks on the critical infrastructures of countries have increased significantly. The types of critical infrastructure and their dependencies based on national requirements are different from one country to another. Disruption in the mission or services of a critical infrastructure has a cascading effect on other infrastructures and causes them serious problems. In different studies, different approaches have been taken to model these dependencies, the important point is not to generalize those models to other countries due to the national requirements of each country. In this research, by forming 11 focus groups consisting of top and middle managers of each infrastructure area, the network analysis method based on the DEMATEL technique was used, and the most influential and influential critical infrastructure from a cyber perspective on other critical infrastructures was identified and the relationship between the infrastructure Critical issues and their prioritization were determined from a cyber perspective. The results of this research can be useful in the design of the national warning sharing system in order to calculate the national situational awareness in the cyber field and other researches based on the dependence of critical infrastructures.

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