Risk Matrix-Based Method for Critical Infrastructure Safety Assessment Taking into Account Interdependencies

This paper is devoted to development of method for critical infrastructure (CI) safety assessment taking into account the different types of interdependencies: logical, physical, geographical, etc. There are many existing approaches for CI safety assessment. But the limited number of them consider the interdependencies focused on safety. Only few of them focus on interdependencies formalization. The suggested approach is based on application of risk matrixes built for each CI systems. Criticality of state is considered as safety value. The risk matrixes are developed for each CI life stage. The initial risk matrix is developed during CI design stage. All operational risk matrixes are built based on fuzzy logic and system field data.