Critical Infrastructure protection / Protection des infrastructures critiques

Articles

• Commission takes first step towards improving critical infrastructure protection

  5 February 2007, by European Commission
  How can the protection of European critical infrastructure in the energy and transport sectors be improved if no common definition has been agreed? To answer this fundamental question, the European Commission today adopted a Communication on the protection of critical infrastructure in energy and transport setting out criteria which can be used to identify European infrastructure in this area.

• La Commission lance la première étape pour améliorer la protection des infrastructures critiques

  5 février 2007, par European Commission
  Comment peut-on mieux protéger les infrastructures critiques européennes dans les secteurs de l’énergie et des transports si on ne sait pas comment les identifier ? Afin de répondre à cette question primordiale, la Commission européenne a aujourd’hui adopté une Communication sur la protection des infrastructures critiques d’énergie et de transport qui décrit des critères pouvant être utilisés pour identifier ces infrastructures européennes.

• Selection of Recent Challenge Events

  2 January 2007, by Challenge
  A Selection of Recent Challenge Events

• The National Infrastructure Simulation and Analysis Center (NISAC): A New Contributor to Strategic Leader Education and Formulation of Critical Infrastructure Policies and Decisions

  6 September 2006, by Sterling Jeffrey, Wimbish William
  The paper outlines the work done at the U.S. National Infrastructure Simulation and Analysis Center (NISAC). NISAC assists the military’s Senior Service College (SSC) community in educating future strategic leaders about the U.S. infrastructure system and researching the effects that new government security policies and actions would have on the nation’s critical assets and public/private sector services.

• Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council Establishing the European Network and Information Security Agency

  6 September 2006, by European Commission
  The paper outlines the proposal to establish a regulatory agency (the European Network and Information Security Agency) as a means of achieving closer cross-border cooperation on network and information security in the EU.

• EU Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) : Note from the Presidency to the Delegations

  5 September 2006, by European Presidency
  This paper draws on the seminars and discussions in the Council regarding the establishment of a European Programme for Critical Infrastructure Protection (EPCIP). It sets out the Presidency’s thoughts on: the areas of the Programme that have met with broad agreement across Member States, and/or progress already achieved; issues that require priority attention prior to the full launch of EPCIP; and issues to be addressed by EPCIP during 2006.

• Critical Infrastructures: Background, Policy, and Implementation

  5 September 2006, by Moteff John D.
  The report provides a background of U.S. policy developments in the area of critical infrastructure protection, starting from the establishment of the President’s Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection in 1996 and President Clinton’s Presidential Decision Directive No. 63 in 1998, and including initiatives pursued under the Bush administration following the September 11 attacks.

• The CIP Report

  5 September 2006, by Critical Infrastructure Protection Program
  This issue features an update on the Private Sector Program (PSP), which is focused on the private sector’s role in protecting critical infrastructure. The issue outlines the sectors that PSP supports and the work of those sectors regarding critical infrastructure protection. The issue also includes information on the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Office of Infrastructure Protection’s security awareness campaign and a DHS pilot project that seeks to better prepare executives for critical security and emergency preparedness challenges.

• Cyber Security: A Crisis of Prioritization

  4 September 2006, by President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC)
  The President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) is appointed by the President to provide independent expert advice on maintaining America’s preeminence in advanced information technology (IT). PITAC members are IT leaders in industry and academia with expertise relevant to critical elements of the national IT infrastructure such as high-performance computing, large-scale networking, and high-assurance software and systems design. The Committee’s studies help guide the Administration’s efforts to accelerate the development and adoption of information technologies vital for American prosperity in the 21st century.

• Critical Infrastructure Protection: Department of Homeland Security Faces Challenges in Fulfilling Cybersecurity Responsibilities

  4 September 2006, by United States General Accounting Office
  The purpose of the report is to determine (1) the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) roles and responsibilities for cyber critical infrastructure protection, (2) the status and adequacy of DHS’s efforts to fulfill these responsibilities, and (3) the challenges DHS faces in fulfilling its cybersecurity responsibilities.

• Analyzing Issues, Challenges, and Prospects

  4 September 2006, by Dunn Myriam, Mauer Victor
  This volume follows from Vol. 1 of the International CIIP Handbook and analyses key issues and major future challenges for the CIIP community from a socio-political perspective. The volume is divided into three parts: Part I discusses conceptual issues and addresses such aspects as the differences between the concepts of CIP and CIIP, the approaches in use to analyze these systems, and what it is we seek to protect. Part II looks at what actually threatens the information infrastructure. Part III addresses two policy issues: public-private partnership and the need for international cooperation.

• A Brave Leap or a Gradual Climb? The Dynamics of Investment in R&D of Integrative Technologies

  4 September 2006, by Setter Oren, Tishler Asher
  Our paper explores the optimal investment in integrative technologies (such as command and control systems), which are a major part of defense R&D at the beginning of the 21st century. Employing a dynamic optimization framework, we find that under linear development costs, it may be optimal or nearly optimal to build military forces using a myopic, short-termed, approach. In such cases, it would be optimal to transform an armed force into a network-centric environment within just a few years. When development costs are convex however, early investment in technological infrastructure is required, extending the transformation period over more than a decade.

• The Transatlantic Defence R&D Gap: Causes, Consequences and Controversies

  4 September 2006, by James Andrew D.
  This paper describes the huge gap in defence R&D expenditure between the United States and Western Europe, considers the causes and consequences of this transatlantic defence R&D gap and analyses some of the controversies that surround it.

• Defence R&D: Data Issues

  4 September 2006, by Hartley Keith
  What is known, what is not known, and what is it necessary to know for informed choices about defence R&D? The published data on government-funded defence R&D are reviewed and assessed. Time-series and cross-section data are presented for the world’s leading defence R&D nations. World defence R&D spending is estimated at almost $68 billion in 2001. Gaps in the data are identified and proposals are made for international comparisons of final outputs allowing an assessment of the relative efficiencies of national defence R&D programmes.

• The UK Defence Electronics Industry: Adjusting to Change

  4 September 2006, by Braddon Derek, Dowdall Paul, Hartley Keith
  The electronics industry provides components and capabilities that are critical to modern defence requirements. It is anticipated that the effectiveness of both weapons systems and the command and control network that supports military operations will become increasingly dependent upon the electronics sub-systems they employ in the future. With the ascendancy of ‘network centric warfare’, it seems certain that defence electronics will continue to grow in importance in the future, enabling far-reaching advances in military capability and efficiency. Yet little is known about the structure, conduct, performance and competitiveness of the UK defence electronics sector as it prepares to meet the challenges ahead.

• The Future of European Defence Policy: An Economic Perspective

  4 September 2006, by Hartley Keith
  European defence policy has been dominated by politics. This paper shows how economic principles can be used to derive guidelines for the formulation of European defence policy. The inefficiencies of the EU’s existing defence arrangements are identified. It is shown that there is scope for efficiency improvements in the EU’s Armed Forces and its defence industries.

• Defense Innovation, Technology Transfers and Public Policy

  4 September 2006, by Bellais, Renaud, Guichard Renelle
  The role of defense in national innovation systems is highly topical, because of the complexity of defense systems and the desire to get value-for-money from R&D investment, especially through the commercialization of defense funded technology. In practice, external transfer has proved to be a difficult, labor-intensive process, which requires a strong commitment from both parties. Here, intellectual property rights (IPR) appear as a strong incentive for collaboration. Analyzing the lack of IPR culture in defense industries elucidates the difficulties and failures in spin-off attempts. We finally propose strategies leading to a market for defense-born technology.

• Bibliography on Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP)

  4 January 2006, by Søby Kristensen Kristian
  A short bibliography on the the of Critical Infrastructure Protection

• Critical infrastructure protection

  3 January 2006, by Søby Kristensen Kristian
  Critical infrastructure protection (CIP) plays an increasingly central role in the strategies to reduce societal vulnerability and to mitigate the conceived threat from terrorism on both sides of the Atlantic. Simultaneously the practice of CIP questions our theoretical understanding of a range of concepts as it introduces new technologies and new knowledge to the practice of security, not easily caught from the perspective of IR and traditional security studies.

• The National Strategy for the Physical Protection of Critical Infrastructures and Key Assets

  3 January 2006, by White House
  This document defines the road ahead for a core mission area identified in the President’s National Strategy for Homeland Security - reducing the Nation’s vulnerability to acts of terrorism by protecting our critical infrastructures and key assets from physical attack.

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