Critical Infrastructure
What is Critical Infrastructure?
Systems, assets, and networks (whether physical or virtual) so vital to a nation that their incapacitation or destruction would have a debilitating impact on security, economic stability, public health, or safety.
Terms that appear alongside critical infrastructure
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as critical infrastructure. The number is how many controls name both.
- cybersecurity 34 shared controls
- gdpr 15 shared controls
- incident reporting 15 shared controls
- incident response 15 shared controls
- nist 14 shared controls
- audit 12 shared controls
- cisa 12 shared controls
- compliance 11 shared controls
Frameworks that govern critical infrastructure
What the standards actually require on critical infrastructure
Requirements naming critical infrastructure across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
The Secretary must keep a Register of Critical Infrastructure Assets containing operational and ownership information provided by responsible entities.
SOCI-S19 · Register of Critical Infrastructure Assets →The Rules apply to responsible entities for the critical infrastructure asset classes specified in the Rules (including critical electricity, gas, water and sewerage, energy market operator, data storage or processing, financial market infrastructure, food and...
CIRMP-s5 · Application to designated critical infrastructure asset classes →Per Papua New Guinea National Cybersecurity Policy and Cybercrime Act: critical infrastructure protection + national cybersecurity governance.
PNGCYBER-2 · Critical Infrastructure Protection and National Governance →Coordinate with sector ISACs, government CERTs and critical infrastructure partners that depend on space services for PNT and communications.
SISAC-16 · Cross Sector and Critical Infrastructure Coordination →Addresses supply chain dependency in the critical infrastructure plan, including upstream providers the organization does not contract with directly.
161R1-PM-8 · Critical Infrastructure Plan →Critical Infrastructure Plan. Address information security and privacy issues in the development, documentation, and updating of a critical infrastructure and key resources protection plan
NIST800-PM-8 · Critical Infrastructure Plan. Address information security and privacy issues in the development, documentation, and updating of a critical infrastructure and key resources protection plan →Questions people ask about critical infrastructure
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