Directives Call For National Effort To Assure Security Of Critical Equipment

New Directives call for a national effort to assure the security of the increasingly vulnerable and interconnected infrastructure of Europe.The Directives stress the critical importance of co-operation between the government and the private sector.

The nation's critical infrastructure sectors such as public health, banking & finance, energy, water and transportation all rely on computerised information and systems to provide services to the public.


The Critical Infrastructure Protection Drive (CPID), the European Critical Infrastructure (ECI), the Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) & the Centre for Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI). All of these bodies has one aim in common - Security of Critical Equipment.

The directive now covers Industries such as Energy, Nuclear, Public Health, Information Technology, CCTV and Communications Technology.

Critical infrastructure protection efforts need to be in place to keep such vulnerable systems working at all times regardless of the event i.e. terrorism or extreme weather situations.

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