Assessing a Potential Cyberattack on the Italian Electric System

IEEE Security and Privacy

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 42-51

  Bruno, Clementina ^a   Guidi, Luca ^b   Lorite Espejo, Azahara ^c   Pestonesi, Daniela ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN PIEDMONT   (Italy)

^b Enel ^*  (Italy)

^c Innovation and Entrepreneurship Business School   (Spain)

Author keywords

Computer crime; Computers; Economics; Power generation; Protocols; Servers

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER CRIME; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTERS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; POWER GENERATION; SERVERS;

CYBER-ATTACKS; ELECTRIC SYSTEMS; LOCAL ECONOMY;

ECONOMICS;

EID: 84946559696     PISSN: 15407993     EISSN: 15584046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MSP.2015.99     Document Type: Article

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