OES are entities operating in sectors considered critical for the functioning of society and the economy. These sectors include energy (such as electricity, oil, and gas), transport (such as airlines, railways, public transit, and maritime), banking (such as payment services and stock exchanges)...
Critical infrastructure (CI) has received much attention in research, policy and political discussions in recent years, following concern over exposure of infrastructure to terrorist attack, disruption through disasters, rising awareness of the interdependent nature of infrastructure in modern urban systems,...
What is Critical Infrastructure? Critical infrastructure refers to the assets necessary for the stable functioning of modern societies. These infrastructure systems and networks provide the services, goods, and resources necessary to support daily life, promote economic growth, and ensure national security...
There are 16 critical infrastructure sectors whose assets, systems and networks, whether physical or virtual, are considered so vital to the United States that their incapacitation or destruction would have a debilitating effect on security, national economic security, national public health or safety,...
The history of CIP began when President Bill Clinton issued the PDD-63 presidential directive in May 1998. The directive documented parts of the national infrastructure that were considered to be critical to the United States’ national and economic security. It also outlined how to protect critical...
Critical infrastructure is those assets that are considered to be vital to the continued smooth functioning of society as an...
Cloud infrastructure vendors also focus on physical security, protecting assets with locked doors, guards, and tight access controls. One key feature of a cloud infrastructure is scalability. In a legacy data center, capacity is fixed unless IT staff physically upgrade the hardware, which may requir...
workspaces. Physical security can be considered as an extension of IT infrastructure security. If attackers bypass security and gain unauthorized access to the office premises, they can conveniently plug into the network and gain complete access to resources. There is also a heightened risk of ...
Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) is a form ofcloud computingthat delivers on-demandIT infrastructureresources such as servers,virtual machines (VMs), compute,networkand storage to consumers over the internet and on a pay-as-you-go basis. ...
This is a really hard question actually, as there are a lot of variables: - How have you defined "business-critical", and have you been super-disciplined in applying the rules so that only the most truly critical incidents are considered business-critical ? For example, we...