SECURITY OF CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE: AN INTEGRATED APPROACH TO PROTECTING VITAL RESOURCES
SECURITY OF CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE: AN INTEGRATED APPROACH TO PROTECTING VITAL RESOURCES

Author(s): Nicoleta MOLDOVAN-PUI
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Carol I National Defence University Publishing House
Keywords: infrastructure; security; cyberattacks; conflict.
Summary/Abstract: Critical infrastructures represent the ensemble of facilities, services, and systems that are essential for the functioning of modern society. Strengthening and maximising the capabilities of all elements that make up critical infrastructures is at the core of contemporary debates at national level from a security perspective and at European and global level from an international security perspective. In the current century, critical infrastructures are much more sensitive in terms of vulnerability in the context of cyber security. Today, we are facing a future laden with uncertainties, and discussing the security of critical infrastructures can become a rather challenging task, especially since modern conflict is characterized by geopolitical, social, economic, technological, environmental, and military influences. However, sudden and unforeseen changes in society, technological developments or political developments are not always taken into account. In what follows, some topical issues of everyday life will be brought to the fore, which, by extension, are considered to be cogs in a larger system, while the minuses, shortcomings and potential threats will be addressed.

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