Lessons Learned: Critical Information Infrastructure Protection : How to protect critical information infrastructure

"I loved the quotes at the beginning of each chapter – very interesting and thought-provoking. I also enjoyed the author’s style and his technical expertise shone through." Christopher Wright, Wright CandA Consulting Ltd Understand how to protect your critical information infrastructure (CII). This book comes with 23 key lessons, including how to: Describe the critical infrastructure service and determine its service level; Identify and analyse the interconnections and dependencies of information systems; Create a functioning organisation to protect CII; and Train people to make sure they are aware of cyber threats and know the correct behaviour. Billions of people use the services of critical infrastructure providers, such as ambulances, hospitals, and electricity and transport networks. This number is increasing rapidly, yet there appears to be little protection for many of these services. IT solutions have allowed organisations to increase their efficiency in order to be competitive. However, do we even know or realise what happens when IT solutions are not working – when they simply don’t function at all or not in the way we expect? This book aims to teach the IT framework from within, allowing you to reduce dependence on IT systems and put in place the necessary processes and procedures to help protect your CII. Lessons Learned: Critical Information Infrastructure Protection is aimed at people who organise the protection of critical infrastructure, such as chief executive officers, business managers, risk managers, IT managers, information security managers, business continuity managers and civil servants. Most of the principles and recommendations described are also valid in organisations that are not critical infrastructure service providers. The book covers the following: Lesson 1: Define critical infrastructure services. Lesson 2: Describe the critical infrastructure service and determine its service level. Lesson 3: Define the providers of critical infrast