IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/aza/csj000/y2020v4i1p58-69.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

The challenge of assessing strategic cyber security risk in organisations and critical infrastructure

Author

Listed:
  • Harry, Charles

    (School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, College Park, USA)

Abstract

The increasing threat of cyberattacks against systemically important institutions and critical infrastructure continues to highlight the need to improve the defence and resilience of organisations. The US government focuses its defence strategy on applying a risk-based approach to optimise the allocation of scarce resources across federal networks and promotion of best practice for critical infrastructure. This paper discusses the framing national policy and the core methodological challenges facing practitioners who seek to implement such an approach. The paper defines three key areas of fundamental challenge: 1) defining tiers, categories, and severity measures of end effect; 2) linkage of devices to organisational processes; and 3) a mechanism for connecting organisations together to analyse emergent societal effects. This approach is broadly applied to an example of commercial airline operations identifying the interconnection between key functions in the production chain that, if disrupted, lead to strategic effects in the critical infrastructure sector.

Suggested Citation

  • Harry, Charles, 2020. "The challenge of assessing strategic cyber security risk in organisations and critical infrastructure," Cyber Security: A Peer-Reviewed Journal, Henry Stewart Publications, vol. 4(1), pages 58-69, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:aza:csj000:y:2020:v:4:i:1:p:58-69
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://hstalks.com/article/5776/download/
    Download Restriction: Requires a paid subscription for full access.
    File URL: https://hstalks.com/article/5776/
    Download Restriction: Requires a paid subscription for full access.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    risk; critical infrastructure; cyber strategy; interdependence;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • M15 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - IT Management

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:aza:csj000:y:2020:v:4:i:1:p:58-69. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Henry Stewart Talks (email available below). General contact details of provider: .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.