The Security of Critical Infrastructures (eBook)

This book analyzes the security of critical infrastructures such as road, rail, water, health, and electricity networks that are vital for a nation's society and economy, and assesses the resilience of these networks to intentional attacks. The book combines the analytical capabilities of experts in operations research and management, economics, risk analysis, and defense management, and presents graph theoretical analysis, advanced statistics, and applied modeling methods. In many chapters, the authors provide reproducible code that is available from the publisher's website. Lastly, the book identifies and discusses implications for risk assessment, policy, and insurability. The insights it offers are globally applicable, and not limited to particular locations, countries or contexts.

PD Dr. M.M. Keupp leads the Department of Defense Economics at the Military Academy of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. He specializes in interdisciplinary work with a strong focus on empirical methods. His academic achievements won numerous awards and honorable mentions. This book is the result of a five-year research project he created and led.