This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Critical Information Infrastructures Security, CRITIS 2013, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in September 2013. The 16 revised full papers and 4 short papers were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 57 submissions.

Security Challenges for Cooperative and Interconnected Mobility Systems.- Study of In-Data Centre Backup Offices for Banks.- Protecting a Federated Database Infrastructure against Denial-of-Service Attacks.- Minimizing the Impact of In-band Jamming Attacks in WDM Optical Networks.- The Role of Critical Infrastructures’ Interdependencies on the Impacts Caused by Natural.- Analysis of Severe Space Weather on Critical Infrastructures.- A Plug and Play, Approximation-Based, Selective Load Shedding Mechanism for the Future Electrical Grid.- A Framework for Risk Analysis in Smart Grid: Perspective Based Approach.- Physical Attestation of Cyber Processes in the Smart Grid.- QSec: Supporting Security Decisions on an IT Infrastructure.- Structural Controllability of Networks for Non-interactive Adversarial Vertex Removal.- Real Time Threat Prediction, Identification and Mitigation for Critical Infrastructure Protection Using Semantics, Event Processing and Sequential Analysis.- Determining Risks from Advanced Multi-step Attacks to Critical Information Infrastructures.- On the Feasibility of Device Fingerprinting in Industrial Control Systems.- Bridging Dolev-Yao Adversaries and Control Systems with Time-Sensitive Channels.- An Indoor Contaminant Sensor Placement Toolbox for Critical Infrastructure Buildings.- Optimization Models in a Smart Tool for the Railway Infrastructure Protection.- Towards Automatic Critical Infrastructure Protection through Machine Learning.- Using NATO Labelling to Support Controlled Information Sharing between Partners.- A Framework for Privacy Protection and Usage Control of Personal Data in a Smart City Scenario.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Critical Information Infrastructures Security, CRITIS 2013, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in September 2013. The 16 revised full papers and 4 short papers were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 57 submissions. The papers are structured in the following topical sections: new challenges, natural disasters, smart grids, threats and risk, and SCADA/ICS and sensors.