Cybersecurity of Critical Infrastructure

Eleonora Viganò; Michele Loi; Emad Yaghmaei

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Cybersecurity of Critical Infrastructure

Eleonora Viganò^*, Michele Loi, Emad Yaghmaei

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Ethics & Philosophy of Technology

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This chapter provides a political and philosophical analysis of the values at stake in ensuring cybersecurity for critical infrastructures. It presents a review of the boundaries of cybersecurity in national security, with a focus on the ethics of surveillance for protecting critical infrastructures and the use of AI. A bibliographic analysis of the literature is applied until 2016 to identify and discuss the cybersecurity value conflicts and ethical issues in national security. This is integrated with an analysis of the most recent literature on cyber-threats to national infrastructure and the role of AI. This chapter demonstrates that the increased connectedness of digital and non-digital infrastructure enhances the trade-offs between values identified in the literature of the past years, and supports this thesis with the analysis of four case studies.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	International Library of Ethics, Law and Technology
Publisher	Springer
Pages	157-177
Number of pages	21
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29053-5_8
Publication status	Published - 2020

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Name	International Library of Ethics, Law and Technology
Volume	21
ISSN (Print)	1875-0044
ISSN (Electronic)	1875-0036

Keywords

Critical infrastructures
Cybersecurity
Ethical issues
National security
Value conflict

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