Abstract :
In studying how to protect the United States´ critical infrastructure, a presidential commission divided it into several sectors: information and communications, banking and finance, energy, physical distribution, and vital human services. Given that all sectors are strongly interconnected, the vulnerability of one represents dangers for the others. For example, a failure in the communications infrastructure would quickly have consequences in the finance and physical distribution sectors, which rely on it for coordination. Disruption of finance and transportation would quickly spill over into the energy and human services sectors. The communications and information infrastructures´ self-evident long-term dependence on energy and finance completes the cycle
Keywords :
internetworking; communications infrastructure; critical infrastructure protection; energy sector; finance sector; information assurance education; information infrastructure; interconnected sector vulnerability; physical distribution sector; vital human service; Banking; Computer science education; Computer security; Ethics; Laboratories; Law; Legal factors; Privacy; Protection; Software testing; education; ethics; information assurance; vulnerabilities;
