The critical national infrastructure (CNI) consists of those key elements of the national infrastructure which are crucial to the continued delivery of essential services to the country.
In all parts of modern society, IT systems are used to manage people and services and communicate internally and with the outside world. Problems with these systems can cause services to fail. Problems with IT or telecommunications in one part of society can also have knock on effects in others, since there is a complex inter-relationship between many parts of the critical infrastructure. There is also a potential hierarchy of problem areas, such that, for example, power failures could cause problems across many other areas such as health and the food sector. Thus, ICT problems in some areas can be relatively quickly contained, and have few serious knock-on effects; but in others, most notably in the power and telecommunications sectors, could potentially trigger a cascade of other problems with catastrophic results. CNIP2010, jointly organized by IIT Gandhinagar, City University London and CDAC Mumbai, will provide a first-hand opportunity to discuss the current threats to the countries' critical infrastructure from electronic attacks, and chalk out counter-measures. International experts from academia, government and industry will participate in this workshop. Topics CNI - Cyber Threats and Countermeasures Protective security measures to reduce vulnerabilities New Cryptographic primitives for CNIP Planning and managing security arrangements including guidelines to handle the disaster situations (Policies, Standards, Regulations and Compliances) For more details: http://cnip2010.cdacmumbai.in/index.html <http://cnip2010.cdacmumbai.in/index.html>
