Question

What are the five strategic principles of critical infrastructure protection? give an example.

Answer 1

critical infrastructue protection is defined as the strategies, policices and preparedness needed to protect,prevent and when necessary respond to attacks on the various sectors.

The 5 strategic principles are;

1. it takes a network to fight a network;network stratgies should be protected using strategies that dervie from network analysis. eg; hirearchial command structure and disintermediated command structure
2. secure the hubs,not the spokes; it should be orgaised as networks with hubs.bu securing the hub servers we protect the servers eg;internet
3. spend 80% on 20% of the country eg; electrical power sector
4. think dual purpose; to enhancethe productivity
5. think asymmetric eg; electrical power sector

examples ; agriculture and food,water,emergency services,telecommuniactions,energy,transportation