Application of social network theory to prioritizing Oil & Gas industries protection in a networked critical infrastructure system
| Autor: | W.J. Zhang, Xiao Liu, Zaheer Baber, C.-L. Chai |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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Engineering
business.industry General Chemical Engineering media_common.quotation_subject Energy Engineering and Power Technology Critical infrastructure protection Management Science and Operations Research Environmental economics Computer security computer.software_genre Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Critical infrastructure Cascading failure Interdependence Control and Systems Engineering Information and Communications Technology Key (cryptography) Electricity Safety Risk Reliability and Quality business Social network analysis computer Food Science media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries. 24:688-694 |
| ISSN: | 0950-4230 |
| Popis: | As a typical process industry, the Oil & Gas industries play a key role within a networked critical infrastructure system in terms of their interconnection and interdependency. While the tight coupling of infrastructures increases the efficiency of infrastructure operations, interdependency between infrastructures may cause cascading failure of infrastructures. The interdependency between critical infrastructures gives rise to an infrastructure network. In this paper, we apply social network analysis, an analytical tool used by social scientists, to study human interactions and to analyze characteristics of the critical infrastructure network. We identify Oil & Gas, Information & Communication Technologies (ICT), and Electricity as three infrastructures that are most relied upon by other infrastructures, thus these may cause the greatest cascading failure of the infrastructures. Among the three, we further determine that Oil & Gas and Electricity are the more vulnerable infrastructures. As a result, priority toward critical infrastructure protection should be given to the Oil & Gas and Electricity infrastructures since they are most relied upon but at the same time depend more on other infrastructures. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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