A Platform for Simulation of Critical Infrastructures Protection

Abstract

Many countries have developed simulation tools to assess the performance of Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP). But there are no common processes and components to simulate different protection targets. This paper describes a proposed platform for simulation and analysis of critical infrastructure protection. We defined a process along with common components to modularize CIP simulation tools so as to simplify their development. We have applied this platform to the implementation of a simulator for physical infrastructure protection and a simulator for critical materials transportation. These simulators can simulate potential combinations of attack scenarios and compute the probabilities of successful defense. By comparing different scenarios, we can identify the vulnerabilities of the examined CIP, and then improvement can be designed.