Critical Infrastructure Resilience and Sustainability Reader

Critical Infrastructure Resilience and Sustainability Reader

by Ted G. Lewis
Released September 2023
Publisher(s): Wiley
ISBN: 9781394179527

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Book description

Critical Infrastructure Resilience and Sustainability Reader

Identify and protect critical infrastructure from a wide variety of threats

In Critical Infrastructure Resilience and Sustainability Reader, Ted G. Lewis delivers a clear and compelling discussion of what infrastructure requires protection, how to protect it, and the consequences of failure. Through the book, you’ll examine the intersection of cybersecurity, climate change, and sustainability as you reconsider and reexamine the resilience of your infrastructure systems.

The author walks you through how to conduct accurate risk assessments, make sound investment decisions, and justify your actions to senior executives. You’ll learn how to protect water supplies, energy pipelines, telecommunication stations, power grids, and a wide variety of computer networks, without getting into the weeds of highly technical mathematical models.

Critical Infrastructure Resilience and Sustainability Reader also includes:

  • A thorough introduction to the daunting challenges facing infrastructure and the professionals tasked with protecting it
  • Comprehensive explorations of the proliferation of cyber threats, terrorism in the global West, climate change, and financial market volatility
  • Practical discussions of a variety of infrastructure sectors, including how they work, how they’re regulated, and the threats they face
  • Clear graphics, narrative guides, and a conversational style that makes the material easily accessible to non-technical readers

Perfect for infrastructure security professionals and security engineering firms, Critical Infrastructure Resilience and Sustainability Reader will also benefit corporate security managers and directors, government actors and regulators, and policing agencies, emergency services, and first responders.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Preface
  6. 1 The Challenge
    1. 1.1 The Evolution of Critical Infrastructure Protection
    2. 1.2 Defining CIKR Risk and Resilience
    3. 1.3 Weather/Climate Change/Global Warming
    4. 1.4 Consequences
    5. 1.5 Discussion
    6. References
  7. 2 What is a Catastrophe?
    1. 2.1 Theories of Collapse
    2. 2.2 Complex Systems Theory
    3. 2.3 General Systems Theory
    4. 2.4 Vulnerable Industrial Commons
    5. 2.5 Resilience Versus Sustainability
    6. 2.6 Discussion
    7. References
  8. 3 Energy Transition
    1. 3.1 A Sector Under Transition
    2. 3.2 Energy Fundamentals
    3. 3.3 Regulatory Structure of the Energy Sector
    4. 3.4 Legacy Fuels
    5. 3.5 Legacy Energy Infrastructure
    6. 3.6 Renewables
    7. 3.7 Solar – Photovoltaic (PV)
    8. 3.8 Batteries and Reservoirs
    9. 3.9 Discussion
    10. References
  9. 4 The Vulnerable Powergrid
    1. 4.1 What Is the Grid?
    2. 4.2 The North American Grid
    3. 4.3 Threat Analysis
    4. 4.4 From Death Rays to Vertical Integration
    5. 4.5 Out of Orders 888 and 889 Comes Chaos
    6. 4.6 The Architecture of Twenty‐First Century Grids
    7. 4.7 Discussion
    8. References
  10. 5 Water and Water Treatment
    1. 5.1 A Vanishing Resource
    2. 5.2 Foundations: SDWA of 1974
    3. 5.3 The Bio‐Terrorism Act of 2002
    4. 5.4 The Architecture of Water Systems
    5. 5.5 Hetch Hetchy Water
    6. 5.6 Threat Analysis
    7. 5.7 Water Resilience
    8. 5.8 Discussion
    9. References
  11. 6 Transportation Renewed
    1. 6.1 Transitioning a Vast and Complex Sector
    2. 6.2 Roads at TOC Risk
    3. 6.3 Rail and Railroads
    4. 6.4 Air Transportation
    5. 6.5 Discussion
    6. References
  12. 7 Supply Chains
    1. 7.1 The World is Flat, but Tilted
    2. 7.2 The World Trade Web
    3. 7.3 TWIC
    4. 7.4 Sustainable and Resilient Supply Chains
    5. 7.5 Are Supply Chains Secure?
    6. 7.6 Discussion
    7. References
  13. 8 Communications and the Internet
    1. 8.1 Early Years
    2. 8.2 Regulatory Structure
    3. 8.3 The Architecture of the Communications Sector
    4. 8.4 Risk and Resilience Analysis
    5. 8.5 The Monoculture Internet
    6. 8.6 Internet Governance
    7. 8.7 Green Communications
    8. 8.8 Discussion
    9. References
  14. 9 Cyber Threats
    1. 9.1 Threat Surface
    2. 9.2 Basic Vulnerabilities
    3. 9.3 Cyber Risk Analysis
    4. 9.4 Analysis
    5. 9.5 Discussion
    6. References
  15. 10 Social Hacking
    1. 10.1 Web 2.0 and the Social Network
    2. 10.2 Social Networks Amplify Memes
    3. 10.3 Topology Matters
    4. 10.4 Computational Propaganda
    5. 10.5 Beware the Echo Chamber
    6. 10.6 Big Data Analytics
    7. 10.7 GDPR
    8. 10.8 Social Network Resilience
    9. 10.9 The Sustainable Web
    10. 10.10 Discussion
    11. References
  16. 11 Banking and Finance
    1. 11.1 The Financial System
    2. 11.2 Financial Networks
    3. 11.3 Virtual Currency
    4. 11.4 Hacking a Financial Network
    5. 11.5 Hot Money
    6. 11.6 The End of Stimulus?
    7. 11.7 Fractal Markets
    8. 11.8 The Threat is Existential
    9. 11.9 Discussion
    10. References
  17. 12 Strategies for a Changing World
    1. 12.1 Whole of Government
    2. 12.2 Risk and Resilience
    3. 12.3 Complex and Emergent CIKR
    4. 12.4 Surveillance Capitalism
    5. 12.5 Industrial Control Systems
    6. 12.6 Global Pandemics
    7. 12.7 Transportation and Supply Chains
    8. 12.8 Banking and Finance
    9. 12.9 An Integrated Infrastructure Strategy
    10. 12.10 Discussion
  18. Index
  19. End User License Agreement

Product information

  • Title: Critical Infrastructure Resilience and Sustainability Reader
  • Author(s): Ted G. Lewis
  • Release date: September 2023
  • Publisher(s): Wiley
  • ISBN: 9781394179527