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Critical Information Infrastructures

Resilience and Protection

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  • © 2007

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Authors:
  1. Maitland Hyslop

    1. Aurora Court, Riverside Park, UK

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  • Thorough investigation of various elements of critical information infrastructures historically and in today's society
  • Comprehensive structure relevant and accessible to both professionals and academics
  • New work in emerging subject matter of timely importance

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    Pages 1-7

  3. Definitions and Assumptions

    Pages 8-18

  4. Critical Infrastructures and Critical Information Infrastructures: Approaches by Geography

    Pages 19-44

  5. Critical Infrastructures and Critical Information Infrastructures: by Type

    Pages 45-60

  6. Critical Information Infrastructure

    Pages 61-76

  7. Some Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Environmental, Legal and Other Process Effects on Critical Infrastructures

    Pages 77-93

  8. Comments on Standards in Information Security, Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity and Business Resilience

    Pages 94-144

  9. A Tangential Threat To OECD Resilience: The Twenty-First Century East India Company

    Pages 145-149

  10. Resilience and Outsourcing Call Centers Offshore: A Case Study

    Pages 150-157

  11. Information Infrastructure: Resilience, Recovery, and Security

    Pages 158-175

  12. A Suggested Approach to Individual, Corporate, National, and International Resilience, Critical Infrastructures, and Critical Information Infrastructures

    Pages 176-193

  13. General Summary and Conclusions

    Pages 194-197

  14. A Manifesto for Change

    Pages 198-200

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 201-277
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About this book

Resilience is an increasingly important concept and quality in today’s world. It is particularly important in the area of Critical Infrastructures. It is crucial in the area of Critical Information Infrastructure. This is because, since the year 2000, man has been dependent on information and telecommunications systems for survival, particularly in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries, and because all other Critical Inf- structures depend upon, to a greater or lesser extent, Critical Information 1,2 Infrastructure. Until, probably, the late 1980s it would be fair to say that the defense of individual nation states depended upon a mixture of political will and armed might. The fall of the Berlin Wall may have effectively ended the Cold War, and with it a bipolar world, but it brought globalization and a multipolar digital world in its wake. Simply put, a number of power vacuums were created and these have yet to be fully filled and settled. In this “New World” many changes were afoot. These changes include the increasing irrelevance of nation states in federated structures and the export of democracy on the back of globalization. One of the biggest changes, though, is the use of digital technolo gy by the OECD countries. This is on such a scale that these countries have become both dependent upon information technology and as individual 3 states largely irrelevant to the new “global” electronic economy. 1 This adaptation of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is attributed to KPMG.

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A very interesting and informative book that covers a wide but interlinked set of subjects. Indeed, attention has been paid to assisting the reader to understand complex and current issues, and it can be said that the work is extremely well researched, up-to-date and of interest to a wide audience including practising managers, government representatives, policy advisors, academic researchers and students of resilience. The work is concise and to the point and allows the reader to familiarize themselves speedily with a number of pressing security issues. The historical points cited are useful with respect to underpinning the key themes covered and the well crafted writing style assists the reader throughout. It can also be stated that the insights and examples drawn from various countries and the public-private sector issues raised are worthy of inclusion. The points made in Chapter 13: A Manifesto for Change, are well argued and should be taken up by policy makers as they are relevant and necessary.

-- CAMIS Newsletter, Volume 3, Number 5, 2007

"The book focuses on the protection of critical information infrastructures, and providing for resilience in recovery following successful attacks. … The book is probably best used in one of two ways: to skim, in order to get a quick overview of the issues and Hyslop’s thoughts on solutions … or to build one’s own view by reading and evaluating the arguments and solutions, and then using the references in the bibliography to obtain additional information." (Gordon B. Davis, ACM Computing Reviews, Vol. 49 (12), December, 2008)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Aurora Court, Riverside Park, UK

    Maitland Hyslop

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Critical Information Infrastructures

  • Book Subtitle: Resilience and Protection

  • Authors: Maitland Hyslop

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-71862-0

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag US 2007

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-71861-3Published: 12 September 2007

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-4419-1Published: 04 November 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-71862-0Published: 05 September 2007

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 278

  • Topics: Systems and Data Security, Computers and Society

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