UK govt manages critical national infrastructure risks

By EgovAsia Editors | Mar 8, 2010

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The UK Government’s Technology Strategy Board has selected Citicus to develop a capability for managing risks to key industrial control systems that support the critical national infrastructure. Citicus will collaborate with RWE npower and other key industry partners to deliver a major advance in the protection and security of critical information infrastructures that underpin the continuous supply of essential utilities and commodities.

The development is part of a government-driven initiative targeted to achieve significant improvements in tackling the ever-increasing threat to organizations’ information systems, through the understanding, monitoring and subsequent improved management of complex, interdependent information infrastructures. The initiative will also lead to the development of improved business resilience and risk assessment services to predict and manage risks in next generation information systems.

This major project combines the risk methodologies and technology of Citicus and their award-winning Citicus ONE risk management software, with the experience and skills of industry partners - who have high dependency on industrial controls systems and possess practical expertise in identifying and managing their security risks.

The project will extend the existing capabilities of Citicus ONE’s risk management software to provide a solution optimized for identifying and managing risks in supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems and other components of industrial control systems. These systems form the critical infrastructure behind the uninterrupted and safe production and distribution of energy, water, oil/gas and food.