The world moves on Critical Information Infrastructures, and their resilience and protection is of vital importance. Starting with some basic definitions and assumptions on the topic, this book goes on to explore various aspects of Critical Infrastructures throughout the world - including the technological, political, economic, strategic and defensive. This new work in an emerging subject matter is of timely importance. The book will be of interest to the CEO and Academic alike as they grapple with how to prepare Critical Information Infrastructures for new challenges.

Zusammenfassung
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.

Inhalt
Definitions and Assumptions.- Critical Infrastructures and Critical Information Infrastructures: Approaches by Geography.- Critical Infrastructures and Critical Information Infrastructures: by Type.- Critical Information Infrastructure.- Some Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Environmental, Legal and Other Process Effects on Critical Infrastructures.- Comments on Standards in Information Security, Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity and Business Resilience.- A Tangential Threat To OECD Resilience: The Twenty-First Century East India Company.- Resilience and Outsourcing Call Centers Offshore: A Case Study.- Information Infrastructure: Resilience, Recovery, and Security.- A Suggested Approach to Individual, Corporate, National, and International Resilience, Critical Infrastructures, and Critical Information Infrastructures.- General Summary and Conclusions.- A Manifesto for Change.