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To gain a better appreciation of why and how we must protect our CIs, we need to understand briefly the fundamental scientific and technological underpinnings of their vulnerabilities.
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Ghosh, S. (2011). Scientific and Technological Nature of Critical Infrastructure Vulnerabilities. In: Ghosh, S., Turrini, E. (eds) Cybercrimes: A Multidisciplinary Analysis. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13547-7_12
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