Principles for management of risks of critical infrastructure

Abstract

On the basis of present knowledge, the critical infrastructure is a set of physical (technical and material), cyber and organizational subsystems of human system that are necessary for ensuring the protection of: human lives, health and security; property; human society welfare; environment; minimal functioning of economy and state administration. In these systems, the processes being under way make up the ground of dynamic development of both, the individual systems and the complexes. The paper is directed to critical infrastructure risk management. For improvement of critical infrastructure safety, it gives the basic principles for trade-off with risks that were derived at deep study of problems of technological facilities in practice.