Protecting critical information infrastructures

Computers and Security

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 43-52

  Rathmell, Andrew ^a,b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UK's Information Assurance Advisory Council   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER NETWORKS; CRYPTOGRAPHY; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; SECURITY OF DATA; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0034836189     PISSN: 01674048     EISSN: None     Source Type: None    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-4048(01)01020-3     Document Type: Note

References (12)

1. www.iaac.ac.uk
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3. Lawrence Freedman, The Revolution in Strategic Affairs Adelphi Paper no 318, (London: IISS, 1998). The RMA is also encouraging non-Western states to think in novel ways about future warfare. Chinese strategists, for instance, have argued that: "we suddenly realize that all these non-war actions [hacking, financial manipulations, perception management] may be the new factors constituting future warfare.... Warfare which transcends all boundaries and limits, in short: unrestricted warfare." Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui, Unrestricted Warfare. (Beijing: PLA Literature and Arts Publishing House, February 1999)
4. Lawrence J. Vale, The limits of civil defence in the USA, Switzerland, Britain and the Soviet Union : The evolution of policies since 1945 (Basingstoke : Macmillan, 1987).
5. Alice Hills, "Seduced by Recovery: The Consequences of Misunderstanding Disaster," Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management," Vol. 6, No. 3 (September 1998), pp. 162-170.
6. Steven M. Rinaldi, Beyond the Industrial Web: Economic Synergies and Targeting Methodologies (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 1995).
7. A Minimum Essential Information Infrastructure for the DoD (RAND, June 1998) at http://www.rand/org/organization/nsrd/MEII
8. See FEMA's discussion of its activities at http://www.fema. gov/library/spln_1.htm.
9. An updated list of members can be seen at: http://www.iaac.ac.uk. At the time of writing, membership covers central government (e.g. Home Office, MoD), law enforcement and intelligence (e.g. NCIS, NISSC), finance & e-business (e.g. Prudential, KPMG, Ernst & Young), energy (e.g. Transco), research & education (e.g. IISS, JSCSC), ICT (e.g. Compaq, Cisco).
10. IAAC's Briefing Papers in 2000 cover issues such as comparative national CIP policies (Europe, North America, Asia), military dependencies, regulation of the Internet, global security R&D.
11. eEurope Action Plan 2002, Feira European Council declaration 20 June 2000. IAAC is actively engaged in this outreach initiative, having associate members from, inter alia, the USA, Sweden, Portugal and South Korea.
12. The organizations featured in Figure 1 are merely a sample of the organisational structures in place in Europe and the USA. The table does not seek to provide a complete picture of each organisation's activities. NISCC - National Infrastructure Security Coordination Centre (UK); NIPC - National Infrastructure Protection Center (USA); JTF-CND -Joint Task Force Computer Network Defense (USA); IAAC -Information Assurance Advisory Council (UK); AKSIS - critical infrastructure discussion forum (Germany); CERT - Computer Emergency Response Team; ISAC - Information Sharing and Analysis Center; NIAC - National Infrastructure Assurance Council (USA); NSTAC - National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (USA)