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Modeling Damage Spread, Assessment, And Recovery Of Critical Systems, Justin Burns
Modeling Damage Spread, Assessment, And Recovery Of Critical Systems, Justin Burns
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Critical infrastructure systems have recently become more vulnerable to attacks on their data systems through internet connectivity. If an attacker is successful in breaching a system’s defenses, it is imperative that operations are restored to the system as quickly as possible. This thesis focuses on damage assessment and recovery following an attack. A literature review is first conducted on work done in both database protection and critical infrastructure protection, then the thesis defines how damage affects the relationships between data and software. Then, the thesis proposes a model using a graph construction to show the cascading affects within a system …