Thiruvananthapuram, April 19 (FN Agency) Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan released a book, “Cyber Security for Critical Infrastructure – Redefining the National Security Concepts” authored by renowned cyber expert KS Manoj. ISRO Chairman Dr Somanath, former ISRO Chairman Dr G Madhavan Nair, Indrina Business solutions Managing Director KS Jayamohan, Acharya Pallikkal Sunil Swami and Santhosh attended the releasing of the book, held at Raj Bhavan on Monday and was dedicated to late General Bipin Rawath. “Even if a nation is small in land area, low in GDP per capita, low in resources, less important in geopolitics, low in strength of armed forces, it can become a military super power if it is capable of launching a devastating cyber-attack on critical infrastructures of any other nation including superpowers and crumble that nation,” the book says.
The book explains the current cyber threat landscape and discusses the strategies being used by governments and corporate sectors to protect against these threats. It discusses the vulnerabilities of critical infrastructures especially in the power system, the broad arsenal of cyber-attack tools, and the various mitigation strategy issues involved in protecting the infrastructures. It goes on to cover cyber intelligence tactics, recent examples of cyber conflict and warfare, and the key issues in formulating a national strategy to defend power grid against cyber terrorism. It discusses the potential impact of industry-wide transformational changes, such as virtualization, social media, cloud computing, structured and unstructured data, big data, and data analytics.
The book, exploring defense-in-depth strategy of ICS (Industrial Control Systems) from conceptualisation to materialisation, gives a detailed description of the cyber-vulnerabilities and mitigation techniques for Critical Infrastructure of a nation. The book presents many real-world documented examples of attacks against critical infrastructure of various nations is a suitable material for automation engineers and OT cyber security professionals to learn the OT security for critical infrastructure. Author KS Manoj is a physicist and an automation engineer with research interest in physical-cyber security of Industrial Control Systems (ICS). The book has been published by Notionpress and marketed across the globe by all major online platforms.