TY - CONF
T1 - Analyzing cyber-physical threats to Pennsylvania dams through a lens of vulnerability
AU - Dennis, Lauren
AU - Rajtmajer, Sarah
AU - Grady, Caitlin
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to acknowledge the Rock Ethics Institute and the Center for Security Research and Education for supporting our efforts to pursue these topics. This effort was partially supported by NSF Grant Award Number 1941657.
Funding Information:
This work was partially supported by NSF Award Number 1941657
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 IEEE.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Protecting critical infrastructure, such as water supply systems and dams, remains a top priority across multiple administrations in the United States. We study the ethical and environmental justice implications of potential disruptions to 29 dams across the State of Pennsylvania that serve as a water supply. Using census data, we investigate the communities surrounding these dams to look for relationships between community demographics and dam characteristics that may contribute to risk. We highlight the role of dam age, dam ownership, dam capacity, and dam downstream hazard potential in this analysis. Our results reveal associations between dam ownership, age, and capacity with the race of the population served, as well as an association between dam ownership and household income band. We conclude with a discussion on the increasing complexity of cyber-physical critical infrastructure and the need for future research which explicitly takes the populations served by this infrastructure into account.
AB - Protecting critical infrastructure, such as water supply systems and dams, remains a top priority across multiple administrations in the United States. We study the ethical and environmental justice implications of potential disruptions to 29 dams across the State of Pennsylvania that serve as a water supply. Using census data, we investigate the communities surrounding these dams to look for relationships between community demographics and dam characteristics that may contribute to risk. We highlight the role of dam age, dam ownership, dam capacity, and dam downstream hazard potential in this analysis. Our results reveal associations between dam ownership, age, and capacity with the race of the population served, as well as an association between dam ownership and household income band. We conclude with a discussion on the increasing complexity of cyber-physical critical infrastructure and the need for future research which explicitly takes the populations served by this infrastructure into account.
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U2 - 10.1109/ISTAS50296.2020.9756013
DO - 10.1109/ISTAS50296.2020.9756013
M3 - Paper
AN - SCOPUS:85128923787
T2 - 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society, ISTAS 2020
Y2 - 12 November 2020 through 15 November 2020
ER -