Beyond regulatory capture: Coproducing expertise for critical infrastructure protection

Critical infrastructure protection

The protection of Critical Infrastructures (CIs) has become one of the most cutting-edge research areas in recent years. There has been considerable effort and expenditure since 9/11 on the protection of ‘Critical National Infrastructure’ against different attacks. This is because information is out of control of the owner. The traditional device – centric security systems are not efficient eno...

Philosophy of Protection for Critical Infrastructure Systems

The Universal Command and Control System (UCCS) is a highly distributed system involving numerous platforms and commands, supporting military operations worldwide. The Highly Reliable Software Production Facility (HRSPF), recently assigned responsibility for improving system performance, has generated routing algorithm update 3.01 to be installed in thousands of routers throughout the system, i...

Policy Based Management for Critical Infrastructure Protection

Our current societies are fully dependent on large complex critical infrastructures (LCCIs). These LCCIs are large scale distributed systems that are highly interdependent, both physically and in their greater reliance on the information infrastructure, which logically introduce vulnerabilities. Failures, accidents, physical or cyber attacks can provoke major damages which can proliferate by ca...

European Reference Network for Critical Infrastructure Protection

Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Protection

Cybersecurity entails the safeguarding of computer networks and the information they contain from penetration and from malicious damage or disruption. Since the use of computer networks has become a major element in governmental and business activities, tampering with these networks can have serious consequences for agencies, firms and individuals. The question is to what degree these individua...