Enhancing Resilience and Business Continuity of Critical Infrastructures

This Open Access book describes the DYNABIC project outcomes and how they solve major challenges in the development and operation of resilient critical infrastructures.Essential services of today’s modern societies rely on Critical Infrastructures (CIs). These are large and complex cyber-physical systems (CPS) that provide critical and essential goods and services to citizens. CIs services do not operate in isolation, they are interconnected with other infrastructures, which allows disruptions to propagate. Due to their criticality, these infrastructures are becoming a key target for attacks, yet they need to ensure maximum business continuity and high resilience in the face of hazards.Thereby, a fundamental research question is “how can we enhance CIs capabilities to effectively prevent, mitigate, and recover from incidents in a context in which (i) human factors, (ii) collaboration of heterogeneous organizations during the CI development of operation, and (iii) interconnections between CIs must be considered?”The answer to these questions has formed the core of the DYNABIC Horizon Europe Project. The overall ambition of DYNABIC is “to deliver new socio-technical methods, models, and tools to support resilience through holistic business continuity risk management and control in operation, and dynamic adaptation of responses at system, human and organization planes”. To achieve this, DYNABIC adopts and extends the SecDevOps approach employed for other Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) systems to ensure a continuum of care.