A review of cyber threats and defence approaches in emergency management

Emergency planners, first responders and relief workers increasingly rely on computational and communication systems that support all aspects of emergency management, from mitigation and preparedness to response and recovery. Failure of these systems, whether accidental or because of malicious action, can have severe implications for emergency management. Accidental failures have been extensively documented in the past and significant effort has been put into the development and introduction of more resilient technologies. At the same time researchers have been raising concerns about the potential of cyber attacks to cause physical disasters or to maximise the impact of one by intentionally impeding the work of the emergency services. Here, we provide a review of current research on the cyber threats to communication, sensing, information management and vehicular technologies used in emergency management. We emphasise on open issues for research, which are the cyber threats that have the potential to affect emergency management severely and for which solutions have not yet been proposed in the literature

Managing Secure Virtual Infrastructures: From Networks To Clouds - A Report On Lanoms 2011

The 7th Latin American Network Operations and Management Symposium (LANOMS 2011) was held in Quito, Ecuador, on October 10 11, 2011. A panel on 'Trends in Managing Virtual Infrastructures: from Networks to Clouds', moderated by Prof. José Marcos Nogueira, from Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil, generated lively discussions on the current state of the technology in cloud computing, what are the main challenges in this field, and what can be expected to be solvable in the near future. Dr. Vladimir Tosic's keynote started by highlighting that currently many organizations are attracted to cloud computing as an information and communications technology sourcing model that can improve flexibility and total cost of systems. Prof. Otto C.M.B. Duarte's keynote was 'On the Design of the Future Internet'. He started highlighting that the very growth of the Internet is due to the TCP/IP protocol stack and its model of a simple core and complexity on the border.204601607Westphall, C., Kormann, L., Notare, M., Riso, B.G., Cruz, F., Report: Network management solutions and trends for the Latin and global markets (2000) J. Netw. Syst. Manag., 8 (2), pp. 299-304Nogueira, J.M., Loureiro, A.A.F., Network management as a strategy for evolution and development: A leport from LANOMS 2001 (2002) J. Netw. Syst. Manag., 10 (2), pp. 261-264Duarte Jr., E.P., Madeira, E., Future trends in network management: A report on LANOMS 2003 (2003) J. Netw. Syst. Manag., 11 (4), pp. 499-503Granville, L.Z., Gaspary, L.P., Schulze, B., De Souza, J.N., Spotlights on network operations and management research in Latin America: A report on LANOMS 2005 (2006) J. Netw. Syst. Manag., 14 (1), pp. 175-179De Souza, J.N., Schulze, B., Sauvé, J.P., Madeira, E., Ziviani, A., Bringing autonomic principles for managing next generation networks and services: A report on LANOMS 2007 (2008) J. Netw. Syst. Manag., 16 (1), pp. 120-128The 6th Latin American Network Operations and Management Symposium (LANOMS'2009), , http://www.lanoms.org/2009, accessed in April 2012