Center for Infrastructure Protection & Homeland Security

Category: The CIP Report

Teaching Homeland Security: A European Approach

Maria Carla De Maggio and Roberto Setola Abstract The appropriate curriculum to build a strong Homeland Security Master’s program is challenging because the environment has […]

Resilience Index: An Alternative in Resilience Measurement

By Francisco José Miranda Perales   In recent times, resilience has been proposed almost systematically as a response and solution every time a crisis has […]

Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience of the Republic of Croatia

by Robert Mikac, PhD, and Ivana Cesarec   The Republic of Croatia is the latest country to accede to the European Union,[1] and as such, […]

NATO Article 5 and Cyber Warfare: NATO’s Ambiguous and Outdated Procedure for Determining When Cyber Aggression Qualifies as an Armed Attack

Stephen Jackson, J.D., Center for Infrastructure Protection and Homeland Security, George Mason University Introduction At the outset of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO) founding, […]

Lessons and Needs for Improving Critical Infrastructures’ Resilience

Paul Théron, PhD, FBCI Developing a critical infrastructure’s aptitude for resilience requires proper concepts and definitions as well as good governance.[1] This short paper presents […]

From the Director – May/June 2016

Welcome to the June 2016 edition of The CIP Report, in which we focus on security and resilience issues of the Energy Sector. This “lifeline” […]

Cyber Security of Energy Systems:  Institutional Challenges

Jennifer F. Sklarew, Ph.D. Senior Fellow for Energy Policy, Center for Energy Science and Policy, George Mason University Introduction To promote energy security, efficiency, and […]

Modeling Electric Power and Natural Gas Systems Interdependencies

Edgar Portante, Brian Craig, Jim Kavicky, Leah Talaber, and Stephen Folga Risk and Infrastructure Science Center Global Security Sciences Division, Argonne National Laboratory Introduction Argonne […]

Lessons Learned from the Power Outage in Ukraine and How the Electric Grid of the Future Will Reduce Cybersecurity Risk

By Martin Kessler, InfraGardNCR Energy Sector Chief First of its kind From the vantage point of the 225,000[1] Ukrainian customers who lost power on December 23, 2015, […]

Resilience Required! – The Struggle to Educate America about EMP and Secure the U.S. Electric Grid

Ronald Jacobus III and Tommy Waller Introduction Imagine that all of a sudden your life drastically changes. The cell phone in your hand, which functioned […]