Enhancing infrastructure resilience through business continuity planning
Abstract
Critical infrastructure is crucial to the functionality and wellbeing of the world around us. It is a complex network that works together to create an efficient society. The core components of critical infrastructure are dependent on one another to function at their full potential. Organisations face unprecedented environmental risks such as increased reliance on information technology and telecommunications, increased infrastructure interdependencies and globalisation. Successful organisations should integrate the components of cyber–physical and infrastructure interdependencies into a holistic risk framework. Physical security plans, cyber security plans and business continuity plans can help mitigate environmental risks. Cyber security plans are becoming the most crucial to have, yet are the least commonly found in organisations. As the reliance on cyber continues to grow, it is imperative that organisations update their business continuity and emergency preparedness activities to include this.
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Author's Biography
Ronald Fisher is the Director of the Homeland Security Division in the National & Homeland Security directorate at the Idaho National Laboratory. He has over 20 years of critical infrastructure protection experience including serving on President Clinton’s Presidential Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection, and as an adviser to the National Petroleum Council’s critical infrastructure protection study. His research includes control systems cyber security, infrastructure analysis and technology development, and lifeline infrastructure resilience. Dr Fisher has been published over 100 times including contributions to multiple books on homeland security, as well as a copyright and trademark in geospatial information technology.
Michael Norman is the Division Director for the Infrastructure Information Collection Division in the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Infrastructure Protection. His responsibilities include physical and cyber security, resilience and the dependencies of the most critical infrastructure in the USA.
Mary Klett is a solutions architect within the Homeland Security Division at the Idaho National Laboratory with specific focus on critical infrastructure assurance, resiliency and interdependencies. She has led several teams in developing complex database-centric web applications that help support the operations of various components within the Department of Homeland Security. Mary has over 15 years of experience designing and developing software solutions. She received a BS degree in computer science from the University of Saint Francis (IL) and has received various distinction awards for her technical work.
Citation
Fisher, Ronald, Norman, Michael and Klett, Mary (2017, December 1). Enhancing infrastructure resilience through business continuity planning. In the Journal of Business Continuity & Emergency Planning, Volume 11, Issue 2. https://doi.org/10.69554/XKKQ9269.
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