Critical Infrastructure refers to systems, facilities, technologies, networks, assets and services that are essential to health, safety, security or economic activities of citizens and the effective functioning of government. That is why assuring the critical infrastructure security is so vital these days. The introduction of the state-of-the art technologies in the systems with lack of policies, procedures, and ill-equipped and trained human resources further aggravate the situation for developing nations such as Bangladesh. Examples of Critical Infrastructure networks can be the SCADA network of Power Grid Corporation Bangladesh Ltd., automation and safety network of upcoming Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant. The objective of this talk is to discuss and analyze the following topics: - The motivation behind securing Critical Infrastructure Systems and Networks - The fundamentals of security in Critical Infrastructure Systems - Technologies used - Challenges
About the author: Mohammad M R Chowdhury is currently working as a Senior Engineer, Cyber Security & Infrastructure at ABB, Oil, Gas and Chemicals in Oslo. Dr. Chowdhury is also serving as an Associate Professor (Industry Lecturer) at the University of Oslo teaching Cyber Security course for Master and PhD students. Prior to that Dr. Chowdhury worked as a Scientist at ABB Corporate Research Center. Dr. Chowdhury has been involved at a number of projects as Lead Engineer and Project Engineer for world's leading Oil & Gas companies such as British Petroleum, ConocoPhilips, Statoil, ENI etc. These projects are located in Norwegian Continental Shelf and Middle East. Dr. Chowdhury has represented ABB in a number of workshops and seminars as Cyber Security experts for Industrial Control Systems and Power Grid Infrastructure.