Critical Infrastructures at Risk,9781402043062

Critical Infrastructures at Risk

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ISBN13: 9781402043062
ISBN10: 1402043066
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2006-03-15
Publisher(s): Springer Verlag
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Summary

Europe witnessed in the last years a number of significant power contingencies. Some of them revealed the potentiality of vast impact on the welfare of society and triggered pressing questions on the reliability of electric power systems. Society has incorporated electricity as an inherent component, indispensable for achieving the expected level of quality of life. Therefore, any impingement on the continuity of the electricity service would be able to distress society as a whole, affecting individuals, social and economic activities, other infrastructures and essential government functions. It would be possible to hypothesize that in extreme situations this could even upset national security. This book explores the potential risks and vulnerabilities of the European electricity infrastructure, other infrastructures and our society as whole increasingly depend on. The work was initiated by the need to verify the potential effects of the ongoing market and technical transformation of the infrastructure, which is fundamentally changing its operation and performance. The final aim is to set the basis for an appropriate industrial and political European-wide response to the risk challenges.

Table of Contents

Executive Summary vii
Contributing Authors xxvii
Acknowledgements xxix
Introduction
Scope
1(1)
Infrastructures, Risks and Society
2(2)
Definitions
4(2)
The European Electricity Infrastructure Today and Tomorrow
6(10)
Background and Structure of this Book
16(3)
Infrastructures at Risk
Introduction
19(1)
A Generic Approach to Critical Infrastructures
20(6)
Trends in Systems of Critical Infrastructures
26(7)
Risk and Vulnerability in Critical Infrastructures
33(3)
Conclusion
36(1)
Liberalisation and Internationalisation of the European Electricity Supply System
Introduction
37(1)
Liberalisation
38(23)
Internationalisation
61(17)
System Security
78(5)
Conclusions
83(2)
The Security of Information and Communication Systems and the E+I Paradigm
Introduction
85(1)
The Evolution towards the E+I Paradigm
86(8)
The Impact of Digitalization on Security
94(10)
ICS Security Risks
104(12)
Conclusions
116(1)
Governing Risks in the European Critical Electricity Infrastructure
Introduction
117(1)
Risks in the European Critical Electricity Infrastructure
118(16)
Risk Governance of ECEI
134(17)
Conclusions
151(2)
Concluding Remarks and Recommendations
Introduction
153(2)
A European Council for the Security of Electric Power
155(3)
Policies Supporting the Development of a Secure ECEI
158(2)
A Multidisciplinary R&D Programme and a Public-private Knowledge Platform Addressing the ``Security of Critical Infrastructures''
160(3)
Appendices
A.1 Learning from the Past -- Electric Power Blackouts and Near Misses in Europe
163(32)
A.2 Critical Electricity Infrastructure: Current Experience in Europe
195(60)
A.3 Security Conceptual Frameworks
255(6)
A.4 ICS Security Standards
261(10)
A.5 Critical Information Infrastructures (CII) and Risk Analysis Framework
271(24)
A.6 Critical Information Infrastructure Protection -- Organizational and Legal Aspects
295(8)
A.7 Profiling the Risk Governance Gap
303(20)
A.8 The Institutional and Regulatory Context for Risk Governance of the European Critical Electricity Infrastructure
323(8)
A.9 Costs of Power Infrastructure Malfunctioning
331(12)
References 343(24)
Glossary 367(2)
Subject Index 369

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