Title: Trust and reputation management for critical infrastructure protection

Authors: Filipe Caldeira, Edmundo Monteiro, Paulo Simoes

Addresses: CISUC – DEI, University of Coimbra, Coimbra 3030-290, Portugal; Polytechnic Institute of Viseu, Viseu 3504-510, Portugal. ' CISUC – DEI, University of Coimbra, Coimbra 3030-290, Portugal. ' CISUC – DEI, University of Coimbra, Coimbra 3030-290, Portugal.

Abstract: Today|s critical communication technologies (ICTs) to deliver their services with the required level of quality and availability. ICT security plays a major role in CI protection and risk prevention for single and also for interconnected CIs were cascading effects might occur because of the interdependencies that exist among different CIs. This work addresses the problem of ICT security in interconnected CIs. Trust and reputation management using the policy-based management paradigm is the proposed solution to be applied at the CI interconnection points for information exchange. The proposed solution is being applied to the Security Mediation Gateway being developed in the scope of the European FP7 MICIE project, to allow information exchange among interconnected CIs.

Keywords: critical infrastructures; ICT security; trust; reputation management; policy-based management; information technology; communications; information exchange.

DOI: 10.1504/IJESDF.2010.038282

International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics, 2010 Vol.3 No.3, pp.187 - 203

Published online: 27 Jan 2011 *

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