The vulnerability of critical infrastructures is a recurring theme on this blog, and today’s article has been on my mind for a while. What I like about Critical infrastructures at risk: A need for a new conceptual approach and extended analytical tool by Wolfgang Kröger is how it couples critical infrastructures, showing how one is dependent on the other, picking up a notion I described in an earlier post Are roads more important than computers?. The article also shows how external factors are a major contributor to the risk and interconnectedness of critical infrastructures.

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