Best paper award for Semir Daskapan and Jan van den Berg

The paper written by Semir Daskapan and Jan van den Berg (ICT section) entitled "Designing Cyber Warfare Infrastructure Resilience" has won the BEST PAPER AWARD of the 12th Australian Information Warfare Conference (IWAR 2011) within the secau Security Congress December 5-7, 2011, Perth, Australia.
This result can be considered as example TPM research output that nicely fits the goals of the newly established Delft Center for Risk and Trust as well as that for Complex Systems.

Abstract of the award winning paper

Due to many cyber attacks in the last years, governments are realizing how vulnerable they have become in case of the break out of a cyberwar. This urged them to establish a cyber warfare information infrastructure in a short time. However, this cyber warfare information infrastructure relies heavily on public infrastructures, like electricity and the Internet, that will be most likely targeted themselves. Therefore, a cyber warfare information infrastructure is by definition a vulnerable infrastructure that needs to be secured against attacks and made resilient. In this paper, we provide a method inspired by the theory of Complex Adaptive Systems to improve the resilience of cyber warfare information infrastructures. This method is applied on one specific security system as a showcase, namely, the intrusion detection system.
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