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Strategies to Improve Critical Infrastructures Robustness Against the IEMI Threat: A Review of Relevant Standards and Guidelines on the Topic

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This paper aims to provide a brief overview of relevant standards, procedures and guidelines to standard bodies to manage the impact of the Intentional ElectroMagnetic Interference (IEMI) threat. It also provides guidelines for CI operators on how to reduce their exposure on IEMI hazards.

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The research leading to these results has been implemented in the framework of the Project STRUCTURES co-funded by the European Union Seventh Framework Programme under grant agreement n 285257.

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De Simio, F. et al. (2016). Strategies to Improve Critical Infrastructures Robustness Against the IEMI Threat: A Review of Relevant Standards and Guidelines on the Topic. In: Rome, E., Theocharidou, M., Wolthusen, S. (eds) Critical Information Infrastructures Security. CRITIS 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9578. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33331-1_22

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