Importance of protections against intentional attacks

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 639-646

  Levitin, Gregory ^a   Ben Haim, Hanoch ^a  

^a ISRAEL ELECTRIC CORPORATION   (Israel)

Author keywords

Attacker's strategy; Expected damage; Importance; Multi state system; Protection; Separation; Universal generating function

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

ATTACKER'S STRATEGY; EXPECTED DAMAGE; MULTI-STATE SYSTEM;

LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS;

EID: 36849025453     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2007.03.016     Document Type: Article

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