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Case Study on Risk Analysis for Critical Systems with Reliability Block Diagrams

Weyns, Kim LU and Höst, Martin LU (2013) 10th International IT Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM) Conference p.693-702
Abstract
This paper presents a practical risk analysis method for critical, large-scale IT systems in an organisation. The method is based on reliability block diagram modelling and was adapted to fit the requirements of governmental organisations and to reduce the effort required to capture complex failure behaviour. Through the use of different failure categories the risk analysis can be simplified, the input data becomes easier to estimate and the results are easier to use in an organisational risk and vulnerability analysis. The paper first explicitly describes the different steps of the method and then presents a case study in which the method was applied and evaluated in a real-life setting. The method is meant to help an organisation to... (More)
This paper presents a practical risk analysis method for critical, large-scale IT systems in an organisation. The method is based on reliability block diagram modelling and was adapted to fit the requirements of governmental organisations and to reduce the effort required to capture complex failure behaviour. Through the use of different failure categories the risk analysis can be simplified, the input data becomes easier to estimate and the results are easier to use in an organisational risk and vulnerability analysis. The paper first explicitly describes the different steps of the method and then presents a case study in which the method was applied and evaluated in a real-life setting. The method is meant to help an organisation to communicate internally about the reliability of their critical IT systems and to prioritise proposed improvements to this reliability. (Less)
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keywords
Risk Analysis, Reliability Block Diagram, Government, Critical System, Availability, Case study
host publication
Proceedings of the 10th International ISCRAM Conference
pages
693 - 702
publisher
ISCRAM
conference name
10th International IT Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM) Conference
conference location
Baden-Baden, Germany
conference dates
2013-05-12
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  • scopus:84905661955
ISBN
978-3-923704-80-4
project
FRIVA
language
English
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yes
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0bf588d6-00c8-45bb-9791-e23930cd5d10 (old id 3561915)
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  author       = {{Weyns, Kim and Höst, Martin}},
  booktitle    = {{Proceedings of the 10th International ISCRAM Conference}},
  isbn         = {{978-3-923704-80-4}},
  keywords     = {{Risk Analysis; Reliability Block Diagram; Government; Critical System; Availability; Case study}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  pages        = {{693--702}},
  publisher    = {{ISCRAM}},
  title        = {{Case Study on Risk Analysis for Critical Systems with Reliability Block Diagrams}},
  url          = {{https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/files/6004962/3561917.pdf}},
  year         = {{2013}},
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