The Understanding of Vulnerability of Critical Infrastructure

The Understanding of Vulnerability of Critical Infrastructure

연구 분야: Infrastructure

학회: International Conference on Critical Information Infrastructures Security

The aim of this paper is to present a problem of insufficient understanding of vulnerability of critical infrastructure. The paper looks at this issue with regard to the definition of vulnerability of critical infrastructure, its content as well as the limitations of current approaches to critical infrastructure protection. The recent events linked to the Covid-19 crisis showed the necessity to shift current approach to critical infrastructure protection from prevention-oriented to resilient-based. The implemented in this research methodology is based on a critical analysis of the existing literature. Specifically, this paper emphasizes the need to understand the concept of vulnerability of critical infrastructure in terms of attributes of the system rather than flaws. It also highlights the marginalization of identification of vulnerability of critical infrastructure only to pre-event actions and its limited applicability solely to physical domain. Due to inability to foresee and prevent all threats from occurring, the approach to critical infrastructure protection requires adaptation of a new strategy based on identification of root causes of vulnerability related to capacity, competence and performance of critical infrastructure.