Cyber Security Challenges: The Israeli Water Sector Example

Tabansky, Lior

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-32824-9_10

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“…The plan recommends integrating of all the city's services by enhancing the digital resiliency through investments in new technologies, regular cybersecurity training and awareness programs for employees, and coordination across multiple city agencies and partners. Other efforts to study the cyber-physical systems in Israel have shown that the answer to future cyber security challenges should include a greater integration of both the private and public sector, and of local and national governments rather than applying a top-down centralized approach through national programs (Tabansky, 2017).…”

Section: Digital Resiliencementioning

confidence: 99%

WATER SECTOR INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS RESILIENCE A Social-Ecological-Technical System-of-Systems and Whole-Life Approach

Sinha,

Davis,

Gardoni

et al. 2023

Camb. prisms Water

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Water is often referred to as our most precious resource, and for a good reasondrinking water and wastewater services sustain core functions of the critical infrastructure, communities, and human life itself. Our water systems are threatened by aging infrastructure, floods, drought, storms, earthquakes, sea level rise, population growth, cyber-security breaches, and pollution, often in combination. Marginalized communities inevitably feel the worst impacts, and our response continues to be hampered by fragmented and antiquated governance and management practices. This paper focuses on the resilience of water sector (drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater [DWS]) to three major hazards (Sea-Level Rise, Earthquake, and Cyberattack). The purpose of this paper is to provide information useful for creating and maintaining resilient water system services. The term resilience describes the ability to adapt to changing conditions and to withstand and recover from disruptions. The resilience of DWS systems is of utmost importance to modern societies that are highly dependent on continued access to these water sector services. This review covers the terminology on water sector resilience and the assessment of a broad landscape of threats mapped with the proposed framework. A more detailed discussion on two areas of resilience is given: Physical Resilience, which is currently a major factor influencing disruptions and failures in DWS systems, and Digital Resilience, which is a rapidly increasing concern for modern infrastructure systems. The resilience of DWS systems should be considered holistically, inclusive of social, digital, and physical systems. The framework integrates various perspectives on water system threats by showcasing interactions between the parts of the DWS systems and their environment. While the challenges of change, shock and stresses are inevitable, embracing a social-ecological-technical system-of-systems and whole-life approach will allow us to better understand and operationalize resilience. Impact statementServices provided by water lifeline infrastructure (e.g., drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater [DWS] systems) are critical to modern societies. However, stresses from aging and external threats (e.g., sea level rise, floods, earthquakes) on existing DWS systems and the current practice of siloed governance and management of DWS systems have worsened the vulnerabilities in many communities, especially in the marginalized ones. This paper presents a new framework on managing the resilience of DWS systems in the water sector to three major hazards (Sea-Level Rise, Earthquake, and Cyberattack). The new framework embraces a social-ecological-technical system-of-systems approach and a whole-life approach to allow communities to better understand and operationalize short-term to long-term resilience in their DWS systems. The framework also endorses the integration of the goals of sustainability and resilience for overcoming global water challenges, and provides insights via case studies on how...

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Section: Digital Resiliencementioning

confidence: 99%

WATER SECTOR INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS RESILIENCE A Social-Ecological-Technical System-of-Systems and Whole-Life Approach

Sinha,

Davis,

Gardoni

et al. 2023

Camb. prisms Water

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“…The negative relationship between information quality and liquidity risk is stronger in times of market liquidity crises (Ng 2011). Information security is becoming an important element for water utility companies due to critical infrastructure management processes (Luiijf et al 2008;Tabansky 2017) This results in more concern, but also in an organisation's awareness of information security risk management in order to develop effective and economically viable control strategies (Shamala et al 2017).…”

Section: Information Safety Riskmentioning

confidence: 99%

Risk management during the Covid-19 crisis: business responses in the Polish water utilities

Chudziński

Cyfert

Dyduch

et al. 2022

Journal of Water Supply: Research and Technology-Aqua

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Water utilities are an essential service that helps protect public health during crises. The Covid-19 pandemic revealed that crisis preparedness is a crucial capability that water utilities must possess. The purpose of this paper is to identify managerial actions and responses that were undertaken by water utility managers in order to reduce the risk related to the first economic lockdown caused by the unexpected Covid-19 crisis. As water utilities should learn from Covid-19 so as to strengthen their future risk preparedness, the paper offers some theoretical underpinnings on risk management. As a result of literature analysis, we focus on the risk management framework that distinguishes five types of risk. The survey was carried out among 116 waterworks in Poland in April 2020. The results indicate the importance of minimising liquidity risk and supply chain risk, which is relevant to the adopted theoretical framework. The findings also highlight the importance of a category that was not originally included in the research model – that is human resource risk, an area that requires managerial attention in the water utility sector. The results could also provide useful pointers for other water utilities, especially those operating in the same or similar legislative regime.

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“…In order to bridge this gap, the National Governors Association (NGA ), a non‐partisan organisation representing the interests of the fifty states and trust territories, has begun taking action in this important area (NGA ). Governments in countries that do not have the political separation of power that exists in the United States, may therefore be able to adopt a more integrated approach to cyber‐security (Tabansky ).…”

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confidence: 99%

Protecting water and wastewater utilities from cyber‐physical threats

Clark¹,

Hakim

Panguluri³

2018

Water & Environment J

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Recent events have highlighted the need to address cybersecurity threats to systems supporting critical infrastructure and federal information systems which are evolving and growing. These threats have become ubiquitous in the United States, and throughout the world. Many information and communications technology (ICT) devices and other components are interdependent so that disruption of one component may have a negative, cascading effect on others. In the United States, the Federal role in cyber‐security has been debated for more than a decade but creating a policy is complicated because in the United States, State and local governments are the major institutions responsible for providing services to their populations. It is important that critical infrastructure such as Publically Owned Treatment Works (POTWs) and Public Water Systems (PWSs) adopt suitable countermeasures to prevent or minimise the consequences of cyber‐attacks. This paper discusses both technological and procedural techniques that can be used to protect against cyber‐threats.

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Cyber Security Challenges: The Israeli Water Sector Example

Cited by 7 publications

References 7 publications

WATER SECTOR INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS RESILIENCE A Social-Ecological-Technical System-of-Systems and Whole-Life Approach

WATER SECTOR INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS RESILIENCE A Social-Ecological-Technical System-of-Systems and Whole-Life Approach

Risk management during the Covid-19 crisis: business responses in the Polish water utilities

Protecting water and wastewater utilities from cyber‐physical threats

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