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IIKG6502

Critical Infrastructure Security

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Credits 7.5
Level Further education, higher degree level
Course start Autumn 2024
Duration 1 semester
Language of instruction English
Location Gjøvik
Examination arrangement Aggregate score

About

About the course

Course content

- Critical Infrastructures and Information Infrastructures

- Threat Actors and Agents in Critical Infrastructures

- Infrastructure Modelling, Robustness, and Dependencies

- Cyber-Physical Systems and their Security

- Control Systems Security

- Selected Aspects of Critical Telecommunications Infrastructure Security and Resilience

- Selected Aspects of Power Networks and Generation Infrastructure Security and Resilience

- Selected Aspects of Oil and Gas Infrastructure Security and Resilience

- Selected Aspects of Transportation Infrastructure Security and Resilience

Learning outcome

Knowledge:

- Advanced knowledge of core concepts of critical information infrastructures and general critical infrastructure as well as their dependencies

- Advanced understanding of infrastructure and infrastructure robustness models

- Advanced knowledge of cyber-physical systems and control systems security

Skills:

- Ability to analyse threat modelling approaches and to assess their suitability for a given set of threat sources and agents

- Ability to critically analyse existing theories and methods for the study of cyber-physical systems security and to independently apply such methods to related problems

- Ability to carry out research in selected areas of infrastructure security and resilience under guidance and supervision

- Ability to identify and critically analyse primary research literature on critical infrastructure security and to apply appropriate scientific reasoning

General competence

- Ability to apply knowledge of concepts and methods of analysing security and resilience of infrastructures to new fields

- Capability to discuss academic and professional topics in the field of modelling and securing selected critical infrastructures both with a specialist and general audience

- Critical understanding of professional and ethical, including research ethics, issues in the field of critical infrastructure security

Learning methods and activities

  • Essay
  • Lectures
  • Project work
  • Reflection

Additional information:

  • Lectures, term paper, project work, and reflection.
  • The course will be made accessible to both campus and remote students, the latter on a best-effort basis. Lectures will be given on campus Gjøvik and recorded if possible with lecture notes and recordings made available via the online learning management system.
  • Candidates are expected to select a topic for a term paper and perform independent study on an active research area connected to the topics covered in the module.

Compulsory requirements: None

Further on evaluation

Re-sit:

  • If the course is to be re-sat, both elements must be re-sat.
  • Re-sit examination in August for the written homeexam. No re-sit in the same semester is possible, candidates must undertake both term paper and re-sit written home examination

.Forms of assessment:

  • The written examination (2 h homexam) contributes 49% to the final result, and the term paper 51%.
  • Both term paper and examination must be passed to pass the course.

Specific conditions

Admission to a programme of study is required:
- (IEIIKEVUH)

Required previous knowledge

As EVU course a Bachelor degree and 2 year relevant work experience is requiered.

Course materials

Books:

  • E.D. Knapp: Industrial Network Security . Elsevier (2011)M. Newman: Networks . Oxford University Press (2010)
  • K. Stouffer, V. Pilliteri, S. Lightman, M. Abrams, A. Hahn: NIST SP800-82Rev2: Guide to Industrial Control Systems Security . U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (2015)
  • G. Sorelo, M. Echols: Smart Grid Security . CRC Press, 2012
  • Setola, Lopez, Wolthusen: Critical Infrastructure Protection: Information Infrastructure Models, Analysis, and Defence . Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 7130, Springer-Verlag (2012)

Credit reductions

Course code Reduction From
IMT4203 7.5 sp Autumn 2020
This course has academic overlap with the course in the table above. If you take overlapping courses, you will receive a credit reduction in the course where you have the lowest grade. If the grades are the same, the reduction will be applied to the course completed most recently.

Subject areas

  • Information Security

Contact information

Course coordinator

Lecturers

Department with academic responsibility

Department of Information Security and Communication Technology

Department with administrative responsibility

Section for quality in education and learning environment