Augmenting ICS cyber security risk assessments: assimilation of socio-technical characteristics and constructs

This thesis provides contributions across a number of discrete areas, including; a method by which ICSs can be defined from a social and technical perspective; an understanding of relevant threat actors, including tools and techniques which could be applied in the targeting of I CSs; how ICS cyber security risk assessments are currently approached by academia and industry, including a mechanism for their review, and identification of key gaps.