Critical Infrastructure: Understanding Its Component Parts, Vulnerabilities, Operating Risks, and Interdependencies is the title of a new North American book on CI.
Details
By: Tyson Macaulay, ISBN: 1420068350 • $79.95 / £41.99, Pages: 344, hardcover.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
In Canada, Critical Infrastructure (CI) sectors generated over $750 Billion in value towards in the economy while in the United States, they represent over $10 Trillion in value Yet, CI is currently a topic which is little understood and seems to generate more fear than rational discussion among both executives and workers in the public and private sectors. Threats to CI can materialize out of nowhere. Breakdowns in systems can massively impact and disrupt businesses and public sector entities alike.
This is said to be the first book of its kind to examine CI and interdependency risks. CI risks are managed by the public sector but most CI is owned and operated by the private sector. These companies are concerned with managing threats and risks up to a demarcation point where their goods or services are handed off to the client or delivery-partner). In the end, the private sector views interdependency risk management as the mandate of government and a component of macro-economic management. Because CI stability and mitigation of security risks are common goals and, ultimately, a shared responsibility, private and public-sector collaboration is necessary to understand both the inherent overall and gaps to ensure economic, goods and services continuity. This book provides a common framework to evaluate these issues.
Features:
Illustrates the interrelationships across Critical Infrastructure and provides good and bad examples of operations as well as readiness and contingency planning
· Facilitates understanding across all CI fields, explaining the fundamental interdependencies of public and private sector entities
· Examines the changing threats to critical infrastructure and preventative strategies and plans to effectively counter those threats
· Defines the governance and regulatory roles of each level of government as well as the public priorities in governance and regulation
The book serves as a reference for national and international infrastructure governance entities; CI industries and industry associations; municipal officials; infrastructure operators; senior executives of security, risk management, and security technology firms; and senior officials with infrastructure funding, management, and national security responsibilities.
CONTENTS:
Chapter 1: What, Who Cares and Why • Chapter 2: Econometrics and Critical Infrastructure Interdependency • Chapter 3: Information and Data Dependency Analysis • Chapter 4: Correlation, Dependency Latency and Vulnerabilities of Critical Infrastructure • Chapter 5: Critical Infrastructure Threat-Risk • Chapter 6: Critical Infrastructure Interdependency Case Studies.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Tyson Macaulay is based in Ottawa, Canada and leads Bell Canada’s Critical Infrastructure Protection practice, serving as its Customer – Chief Information Security Officer (C-CISO)/ Security Liaison Officer (SLO). He is responsible for technical and operational risk management solutions for Bell’s largest enterprise clients. Macaulay leads security initiatives addressing large, complex, technology solutions including physical and logical (IT) assets, and regulatory/legal compliance requirements. In this role, he leads worldwide engagements involving multi-national companies and international governments.
