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Canada’s Critical Infrastructure: Stay Calm and Get on with it….Andrew GrahamSchool of Police StudiesQueens University
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The Future of Security:Anticipating a Changing Landscape2012 Security ConferenceToronto May 1 & 2, 2012
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My Purpose
• Outline my research for the Macdonald-Laurier Institute
• Suggest a more holistic view of critical infrastructure risks
• Suggest a future agenda
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What I Did…
• Background research• Series of interviews – government, private
operators• Focused on both the policy and operation
sides• No claims to completeness or finality• Trying to open up discussion about the
real issues
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What I found…..
• CI is massive, complex and widely dispersed
• No one is in control and it is highly unlikely that anyone claiming to be is rational
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What I found…..
• Public perceptions revolve around the available heuristic, not systematic information – white noise issue
• There is a residual notion that “Government needs to do more” with no idea of what that more means and if it would be effective
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What I found…..
• Government action has been varied with the federal government playing a relative passive, information-sharing role. And slow at it to boot.
• Other levels of government have had to be more tactical although it varies across the country.
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What I found…..
• There is no real information on real threats and if there were, it would not be shared openly
• The risk landscape is rich but hardly registered in a systematic way that risk management needs
• The system (if it exists) is very fragile but with many signs of resilience and strength
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What I found…..
• Major risks are being ignored or poorly served because they are not sexy or headline grabbing
• CI resilience should be the goal and that takes a holistic approach with a strong emphasis on co-operation, developing and sharing knowledge and practice, and the human capacity link operational experience with the increased flow of risk information
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Let’s be clear about the real risks…
• Real divide between policy makers and operators
• Terrorist versus biker gangs• Losing knowledge is a major
risk• Control systems that
themselves become vulnerable
• Working relationships spotty• Maintenance and renewal
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Risk perception varies, almost dangerously
• Available heuristic is an external terrorist threat – for real or pandering to American and media interests?
• What I heard:– Organized crime– Domestic political criminality
(is that terrorism?)– System degradation– Poor information flow and
recognition of signals
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Failure to maintain and renew increases risk
• Real question here is risk of loss of CI not an attack
• Infrastructure deficit in Canada is enormous – Federal of Canadian Municipalities has it right
• Real and present risk of failure –
• Risks increase with failure to maintain
• Government and private sector problem
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Control systems become risks and opportunities
• Controls monitoring CI become potential targets
• To what extent do they replace humans?
• Never ignore how powerful the information they provide can be for those capable of adding intuition and mindfulness to the new analytics
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CI and the people element…
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CI and the people element…
• No number of control systems will work without experienced system operators
• System resilience depends upon informed instinct
• Generations are moving on and replacement is an issue
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CI and the people element…
• Skills requirements shifting as systems become more complex, but also offer more and more information on their performance
• Need to emphasize growing need for CI systems to interact and for CI personnel to connect to security and policy
• Need some form of collective action on competency development – analogs exist
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What we don’t know
• We don’t know• Few centres of research and
study free of political purse or control strings
• We need to map our dependencies and their inter-relationship so we can do better, e.g. supply chains, grids and cross-border dependencies – note good work of Conference Board of Canada on this
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What we don’t know
• Little opportunity to build body of knowledge of leading practice, shared experiences, etc.
• No academic resources for research that would push the envelope and improve understanding
• Building competency within CI personnel is also about sharing knowledge
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Bottom Line
• Time to panic? No• Time to get more focused? Yes• We need better risk assessment.• We need a more alert public to real threats.• We need to think more about the human
side of CI – the people who run and know the systems.
• We need to learn more.
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Most importantly, we need to stay calm and get on with it.
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Andrew GrahamSchool of Policy Studies
Queen’s University
[email protected]://post.queensu.ca/~grahama
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