This paper discusses cross-sector infrastructure interdependencies and key risk
considerations, analysis approaches, research and development needs, and the range of …

Our national security, economic prosperity, and national well-being are dependent upon a
set of highly interdependent critical infrastructures. Examples of these infrastructures include …

Interdependencies among infrastructure systems are now becoming commonplace, and
present both opportunities and vulnerabilities. Initial attention was paid to functional …

Recent events have heightened our awareness of the vulnerability of civil infrastructure
systems. Most of the research on this topic has focused on individual systems, while more …

Today's society relies greatly upon an array of complex national and international
infrastructure networks, such as transportation, utilities, telecommunication, and even …

The infrastructures on which our society depends are interconnected and interdependent on
multiple levels. The failure of one infrastructure can result in the disruption of other …

Critical Infrastructures (CIs) play crucial roles in modern societies and our reliance on their
proper functioning even in the face of accidental failures and deliberate targeted attacks …

Civil infrastructure provides the range of essential services generally necessary to support a
nation's economy and quality of life-arguably entire economies rely on the ability to move …

Critical infrastructures display many of the characteristic properties of complex systems.
They exhibit infrequent large failures events that often obey a power law distribution in their …

The protection of critical infrastructures, such as electrical power grids, has become a
primary concern of many nation states in recent years. Critical infrastructures involve multi …