Critical Infrastructure: The Security Dimension
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https://doi.org/10.58423/2786-6742/2025-8-13-37Keywords:
critical infrastructure, critical infrastructure objects, economic security, energy security, financial security, infrastructure security, cybersecurity, critical infrastructure security and its objectsAbstract
The significance of ensuring the security of critical infrastructure and its elements has been examined. The degree of coverage of this issue in domestic and foreign economic literature has been analyzed. The nature of regulatory approaches to the investigated topic in the current Ukrainian legislation, subordinate acts, as well as normative legal acts, strategic and programmatic documents of foreign countries and economic unions has been determined. The evolution of perspectives on ensuring critical infrastructure elements has been presented. Domestic and foreign approaches to interpreting the essence of the concepts “critical infrastructure”, “critical infrastructure objects”, “critical infrastructure protection” and “critical infrastructure security” have been highlighted. The author’s vision of critical infrastructure security and its economic security has been provided. Requirements for organizing the financial security of critical infrastructure have been outlined. The interconnection of critical infrastructure security with energy, industrial, resource, food, environmental, technogenic, social, financial, banking, property, transport, informational, scientific-technological, defense, military, demographic, radiation, biological, chemical security, and asset security, as well as security in the healthcare sector, has been emphasized. National priorities for the development of critical infrastructure and ensuring its security have been characterized. Security aspects of critical infrastructure functioning in general and critical infrastructure objects (CIOs) in particular have been clarified, along with the relationship between their protection and ensuring safety and resilience. Challenges and threats in this area have been identified, as well as approaches to assessing security levels and methods for analyzing such security. A list of critical infrastructure security indicators has been provided. The interconnection between the state of critical infrastructure and various types of security in individual countries has been revealed. The necessity of forming a state system for the protection, security, and resilience of critical infrastructure in Ukraine has been highlighted. Conclusions regarding promising directions and the organization of research in this area have been made.
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