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Abstract

Numerous countries have a high impact on providing the planet with critical infrastructures offering very important services employed in different fields such as water resources management, public services, power grids, telecoms, commercials, and transportation. The increasing solutions in IoT systems made it possible to exploit internet connection services for supporting the critical infrastructures. The latest are being targeted by various types of cyber-attacks due to the advancement in internet services. Therefore, improving the security systems and the ways to detect the threats is highly required. Meanwhile, protecting the critical infrastructures from hostile cyber-attacks is of high significance. This article examines a number of cyber-attack scenarios focused on critical infrastructures during recent years and highlights the most effective countermeasures for mitigating the most common types of attacks.

Keywords

IoT structures, Cyber-attacks, Counter-cyber-attacks, mitigation techniques.

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