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Throughout history, mankind has developed technologies and integrated them into systems to be deployed for human welfare and security — albeit at the price of becoming dependent on these very same technologies and systems. In recent decades these systems have grown into a large-scale array of interconnected networks that span large distances and are, for the most part, privately owned or operated. These so-called infrastructures function collaboratively and synergistically to produce and/or distribute a continuous flow of goods and services. Infrastructures so vital to a country that their incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on the health, safety, security, economy and social well being of the country, including the effective functioning the government1, are labelled critical. The failure of only a single infrastructure or an interruption of its service can inflict significant damage on a society and its economy. However, cross-boundary cascading bears the potential for multi-infrastructural collapse with unprecedented consequences.
Definition refers to PCCIP 1997 and EC 2004 but was slightly modified by the author.
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Kröger, W. (2011). An Overview of Swiss Research on Vulnerability of Critical Infrastructure. In: Thoma, K. (eds) European Perspectives on Security Research. acatech DISKUTIERT, vol 1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18219-8_6
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