Introduction
Critical infrastructure is the fundamental structure of modern society. Human beings largely depend on systems for survival in the harsh economic environment. Everything around, tangible and intangible alike, has a purpose of making life easier for humanity. As time progresses, the Infrastructures continue to develop and become more sophisticated. More advanced inventions have more functionalities than the less complex ones. Continued improvement of resources covers loopholes that the previous developments had overlooked thus gaining a new aspect different from the previous infrastructures. However, advancements in technology create new risks and vulnerabilities in Critical Infrastructure. Over-reliance on technology and institutions, …show more content…
President Bill Clinton signed a presidential directive (PPD-63) regarding the subject of critical infrastructure protection. The document identified sections of the National Infrastructure as essential to the well-being and security of the United States. Also, the contents looked into the safety and interests of citizens and the necessary procedures to apply. President Bush updated the paper using the Homeland Security Presidential Directive (HSPD-7) of December 2003. He renamed the program as Critical Infrastructure Identification, Prioritization, and Protection (CIIPP). The decree, that later became National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP), focused on the importance of Critical Infrastructure Protection in the budget and implementation. Some Departments are so important to the United States that the incapability of such systems and reserves would devastate the security, national economy, national public health and safety (Ryan, …show more content…
In 1995, America had heard of a major cyber-attack where hackers made away with $12 million from customers’ bank accounts. During those periods networks and systems were logically and physically separate. Such isolation exposed the systems to vulnerabilities thus advanced technology automated the sectors thus interlinked the systems using computers and soft-wares. Consequently, the gas, telecommunications, financial services and oil sectors interlink thus removing traditional security borders. The created interrelationships are more vulnerable to cyber interferences and physical disturbances due to singleness of failure stages. As an example, the capacity of the information and communication sector empowers the nation to organize government processes and business deals. One tragic failure has the potential of completely destroying the multiple systems such as emergency services, financial services, and dam control. As such, the Presidential Directive mandated several agencies to come up with plans and implement security protocols (Wurstbauer & Schäfers,
Critical infrastructure is the fundamental structure of modern society. Human beings largely depend on systems for survival in the harsh economic environment. Everything around, tangible and intangible alike, has a purpose of making life easier for humanity. As time progresses, the Infrastructures continue to develop and become more sophisticated. More advanced inventions have more functionalities than the less complex ones. Continued improvement of resources covers loopholes that the previous developments had overlooked thus gaining a new aspect different from the previous infrastructures. However, advancements in technology create new risks and vulnerabilities in Critical Infrastructure. Over-reliance on technology and institutions, …show more content…
President Bill Clinton signed a presidential directive (PPD-63) regarding the subject of critical infrastructure protection. The document identified sections of the National Infrastructure as essential to the well-being and security of the United States. Also, the contents looked into the safety and interests of citizens and the necessary procedures to apply. President Bush updated the paper using the Homeland Security Presidential Directive (HSPD-7) of December 2003. He renamed the program as Critical Infrastructure Identification, Prioritization, and Protection (CIIPP). The decree, that later became National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP), focused on the importance of Critical Infrastructure Protection in the budget and implementation. Some Departments are so important to the United States that the incapability of such systems and reserves would devastate the security, national economy, national public health and safety (Ryan, …show more content…
In 1995, America had heard of a major cyber-attack where hackers made away with $12 million from customers’ bank accounts. During those periods networks and systems were logically and physically separate. Such isolation exposed the systems to vulnerabilities thus advanced technology automated the sectors thus interlinked the systems using computers and soft-wares. Consequently, the gas, telecommunications, financial services and oil sectors interlink thus removing traditional security borders. The created interrelationships are more vulnerable to cyber interferences and physical disturbances due to singleness of failure stages. As an example, the capacity of the information and communication sector empowers the nation to organize government processes and business deals. One tragic failure has the potential of completely destroying the multiple systems such as emergency services, financial services, and dam control. As such, the Presidential Directive mandated several agencies to come up with plans and implement security protocols (Wurstbauer & Schäfers,