Critical infrastructure protection

The list of critical infrastructures (CI) consists of nine sectors, divided into 27 sub-sectors, or branches. For example, the sector ‘Energy’ is made up of the sub-sectors ‘power supply’, ‘oil supply’, ‘gas supply’ and ‘district and process heating’. In general, each individual element (operating companies, IT systems, facilities, buildings, etc.) providing services in one of the 27 sub-sectors is considered part of the critical infrastructure, regardless of its criticality. The criticality of an infrastructure refers to its relative importance in terms of the consequences that its failure would have on the population and its vital resources. Criticality depends on the particular level of perspective: for example, some critical infrastructures at local or communal level may have a high level of criticality (e.g. a transformer station in the distribution grid), while others have a high level of criticality at national or even international level (e.g. central control systems in the transmission network).

Reports and studies on Critical Infrastructure Protection.