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Department of Information Technology,
Ministry of Communications and Information Technology,
Government of India

A critical infrastructure (CI) is an infrastructure or asset the incapacitation or destruction of which would have a debilitating impact on the national security and the economic and social welfare of a nation. It has been established that key sectors of modern society, including those vital to national security and to the essential functioning of industrialized economies, rely on a spectrum of highly interdependent national and international software-based control systems for their smooth, reliable, and continuous operation. This critical information infrastructure (CII) underpins many elements of the CI, as many information and communication technologies (ICT) have become all-embracing, connecting other infrastructure systems and making them interrelated and interdependent. Not only are information systems exposed to failures, they are also potentially attractive targets for malicious attacks.

 

In India, many efforts in the field of critical information infrastructure protection (CIIP) were triggered by the governments’ goal of making the country a leading knowledge-driven global economy by boosting IT and e-business. All critical infrastructures are increasingly dependent on the information infrastructure for a variety of information management, communications, and control functions. This dependence has a strong national security component, since information infrastructure enables both economic vitality and military and civilian government operations.

 

At present, however, open, pressing, but unanswered questions abound in the field of CIIP. As a result, there is huge research gap to be filled. Aim of the project is to develop a robust and survivable Critical Sector Information Infrastructure Protection and Management Framework. The framework and the theory behind it will be used to develop a set of metrics for measuring Critical Sector Information Infrastructure Protection capability and performance. This will help in Management decision-making and provide assurance of RoI. Based on the above framework and the metrics, WISSDOM will be enhanced with a number of components, for the protection and management of Critical Sector Information Infrastructure.