Critical Foundations: Protecting America's Infrastructures
Abstract
Book Review Review by : mobilize the ability of a city of respond in case Edward M. Roche of emergency), government services. banking Book Review Editor, New York and finance ('which manages trillions of dollars. from deposit of our individual paychecks to the transfer of huge amounts in support of major CRITICAL FOUNDATIONS: PROTECTING AMERICA'S global enterprises'), electrical power, and the INFRASTRUCTURES telecommunications infrastructure itself. The President's Commission on Critical In one scenario, the Commission paints a picture 1nfi.astructure Protection. (Robert T March, of the use of 'cyber intrusion' to 'identify valued Chairman) October 1997, Washington, D. C. targets' followed by 'physical attacks against Available at the Commission's web site at: cyber'. The Commission estimates that the htrp://www.pccip.gov 'population with skills for a Cyber Attack' to be One of the often-overlooked functions in the today and 19 million persons in about 5 years. multinational enterprise is security. We are in the The world of the future only 5 year's out is midst of tremendous changes in the security terrifying to any person concerned with environment. In particular, the rise of the corporate security: more than 500 million Internet and open systems for transmission has personal computers, 2.5 million local