Print Email Facebook Twitter A Moment of Weakness Title A Moment of Weakness: Protecting Against Targeted Attacks Following a Natural Disaster Author Oostenbrink, J. (TU Delft Embedded Systems) Kuipers, F.A. (TU Delft Embedded Systems) Date 2020 Abstract By targeting communication and power networks, malicious actors can significantly disrupt our society. As networks are more vulnerable after a natural disaster, this moment of weakness may be exploited to disrupt the network even further. However, the potential impact and mitigation of such a follow-up attack has yet to be studied.In this paper, we propose a framework to analyze the impact of a combination of a natural disaster followed by a targeted single node failure. We apply this framework on empirical disaster data and two network topologies. Our experiments show that even small targeted attacks can significantly augment the already grave network disruption caused by a natural disaster. We further show that this effect can be mitigated by adopting a calculated repair strategy. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:21358abb-b3c1-4d03-ab58-fc2f69ab5c2b DOI https://doi.org/10.1145/3397776.3397780 ISSN 0163-5999 Source ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, 47 (4), 12-15 Event CINS 2019, 2019-06-28, Phoenix, United States Bibliographical note Special Issue on the third ACM SIGMETRICS International Workshop on Critical Infrastructure Network Security (CINS 2019) Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2020 J. Oostenbrink, F.A. Kuipers Files PDF 3397776.3397780.pdf 901.28 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:21358abb-b3c1-4d03-ab58-fc2f69ab5c2b/datastream/OBJ/view