Critical Infrastructure Protection IX

Theinformation infrastructure---comprising computers, embedded devices, networksand software systems---is vital to day-to-day operations in every sector:information and telecommunications, banking and finance, energy, chemicals andhazardous materials, agriculture, food, water, public health, emergencyservices, transportation, postal and shipping, government and defense. Globalbusiness and industry, governments, indeed society itself, cannot functioneffectively if major components of the critical