Cybercrime and the Security of Critical Infrastructures

In recent years, the Internet has rapidly expanded to a massive economic sphere of activity - not only for the new economy, where Internet-based businesses have grown from startups to multinational and billon-dollar enterprises, faster than any businesses before, but also for the "dark side" of entrepreneurship. Exploiting weaknesses in information and communications technology (ICT) systems has become a profitable business model. In order to better cope with these threats, we argue that tight cooperation between all parties in the digital society is necessary. The project CAIS deals with the implementation of a cyber attack information system on a national level, whose ultimate goal is to strengthen the resilience of today's interdependent networked services and increase their overall availability and trustworthiness.