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Governing Critical ICT: Elements that Require Attention

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Eric Luiijf  and
Marieke Klaver
Eric Luiijf
Affiliation:
Cyber Operations and Critical (Information) Infrastructure Protection, the NetherlandsOrganisation for Applied Scientific Research TNO, The Hague
Marieke Klaver
Affiliation:
Cyber Operations and Critical (Information) Infrastructure Protection, the NetherlandsOrganisation for Applied Scientific Research TNO, The Hague
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Abstract

With respect to critical information and communication technologies (ICT), nations most often declare their national critical infrastructure to include telecommunication services and in some cases critical services offered by key Internet Service Providers (ISP). This paper debates whether nations, their policy-makers, legislation and regulation largely overlook and fail to properly govern the full set of ICT elements and services critical to the functioning of their nation. The related societal and economical risk, however, needs to be closely mitigated, managed and governed. Legal and regulatory obligations to increase the ICT resilience may sometimes encourage this process.

Type
Symposium on Critical Infrastructures: Risk, Responsibility and Liability
Information
European Journal of Risk Regulation , Volume 6 , Issue 2 , June 2015 , pp. 263 - 270
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2015

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