Critical Information Infrastructure Protection (CIIP) Policies in Selected Countries: Findings of the CIIP Handbook

The International Critical Information Infrastructure Protection Handbook addresses the subject of critical information infrastructure protection (CIIP), a growingly important topic on the security policy agenda. The CIIP Handbook focuses on aspects of CIIP related to security policy and methodology. The security policy perspective evaluates policy efforts for the protection of critical information infrastructure in different countries. The methodological perspective discusses selected methods and models to analyze and evaluate various aspects of critical information infrastructure. The International CIIP Handbook: Project Description Key sectors of modern society, including those vital to the national security and the essential functioning of industrialized economies, are dependent on a spectrum of highly interdependent national and international software-based control systems for their smooth, reliable, and continuous operation. This information infrastructure underpins many elements of the critical infrastructure (CI), and is hence called critical information infrastructure (CII). The CII is facing a continuous change towards new ways of interaction with societies: Most evident is the growing use of open systems to monitor and control operations of the CI as well as the convergence of the media, information technology, and telecommunications technology towards integrated information and communication technologies (ICT).