Threat intelligence platform for the energy sector

Rafał Leszczyna; Michał Wróbel

doi:10.1002/spe.2705

Threat intelligence platform for the energy sector

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In recent years, critical infrastructures and power systems in particular have been subjected to sophisticated cyberthreats, including targeted attacks and advanced persistent threats. A promising response to this challenging situation is building up enhanced threat intelligence that interlinks information sharing and fine-grained situation awareness. In this paper a framework which integrates all levels of threat intelligence i.e. strategic, tactical, operational and technical is presented. The platform implements the centralised model of information exchange with peer-to-peer interactions between partners as an option. Several supportive solutions were introduced, including anonymity mechanisms or data processing and correlation algorithms. A data model that enables communication of cyberincident information, both in natural language and machine-readable formats was defined. Similarly, security requirements for critical components were devised. A pilot implementation of the platform was developed and deployed in the operational environment, which enabled practical evaluation of the design. Also the security of the anonymity architecture was analysed.

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Category:: Articles
Type:: artykuł w czasopiśmie wyróżnionym w JCR
Published in:: SOFTWARE-PRACTICE & EXPERIENCE no. 49, pages 1225 - 1254,
ISSN: 0038-0644
Language:: English
Publication year:: 2019
Bibliographic description:: Leszczyna R., Wróbel M.: Threat intelligence platform for the energy sector// SOFTWARE-PRACTICE & EXPERIENCE. -Vol. 49, iss. 8 (2019), s.1225-1254
DOI:: Digital Object Identifier (open in new tab) 10.1002/spe.2705
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