Critical Infrastructure: The Big Picture
Most people at least vaguely comprehend that modern civilization is supported by a vast web of dependencies on services, energy, resources, and manufacturing. Yet only a small percentage perceive and grasp the true depth, breadth, and fragility of that critical web. Indeed, in the developed world especially, the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) states “16 critical infrastructure sectors whose assets, systems, and networks, whether physical or virtual, are considered so vital to the United States that their incapacitation or destruction would have a debilitating effect on security, national economic security, national public health or safety, or any combination thereof.“[1] Over the next many weeks, we are going to take a look at a number of these sectors to highlight the fragility of today’s modern civilization and its vulnerability to aspects of a selected subset. We will also touch briefly on; the workforce required t...