Critical Infrastructure Resilience
Australia’s critical infrastructure is important to our national security. Visit the National Security website to learn more about Australia’s national security arrangements.
On 30 June 2010, the Australian Government released its Critical Infrastructure Resilience Strategy.
- Australian Government’s Critical Infrastructure Resilience Strategy [DOC 702KB]
- Australian Government’s Critical Infrastructure Resilience Strategy [PDF 467KB]
- Australian Government’s Critical Infrastructure Resilience Strategy Supplement [DOC 101KB]
- Australian Government’s Critical Infrastructure Resilience Strategy Supplement [PDF 229KB]
The aim of the Strategy is the continued operation of critical infrastructure in the face of all hazards, as this critical infrastructure supports Australia’s national defence and national security, and underpins our economic prosperity and social wellbeing. More resilient critical infrastructure will also help to achieve the continued provision of essential services to the community.
The Strategy has two key objectives:
- critical infrastructure owners and operators (including the Australian Government) are effective in managing foreseeable risks to the continuity of their operations, through an intelligence and information led, risk informed approach
- critical infrastructure owners and operators enhance their capacity to manage unforeseen or unexpected risk to the continuity of their operations, through an organisational resilience approach.
A key imperative of the strategy is to have an effective business-government partnership with critical infrastructure owners and operators. The Trusted Information Sharing Network (TISN) for Critical Infrastructure Resilience is one important avenue for this partnership.
The TISN provides an environment where business and government can share vital information on security issues relevant to the protection and resilience of our critical infrastructure and the continuity of essential services in the face of all hazards.
The TISN agenda is driven by critical infrastructure owners and operators from seven Sector Groups. In addition, two Expert Advisory Groups provide advice on broad aspects of critical infrastructure requiring expert knowledge. Each group of the TISN embraces the concept of critical infrastructure resilience.
Another imperative of the strategy is to assist owners and operators of critical infrastructure to identify, analyse and manage cross-sectoral dependencies. A key activity to deliver this imperative is the Critical Infrastructure Program for Modelling and Analysis (CIPMA).
CIPMA can examine the relationships and dependencies between critical infrastructure systems, and demonstrate how a failure in one sector can greatly affect the operation of critical infrastructure and delivery of essential services in other sectors.
Registration now open – the Critical Infrastructure Resilience Conference 2012
Critical Infrastructure Resilience: Expect the unexpected
The Attorney-General’s Department will host the second Critical Infrastructure Resilience (CIR) Conference from 15-16 March 2012 in Sydney.
The Conference is an initiative under the Australian Government’s CIR Strategy, helping to develop an effective business-government partnership with CI owners and operators.
Attendees will include representatives from a variety of disciplines across government, business, NGO and academic sectors who are interested in meeting the challenge of organisational change from disruptive events.
The registration form is available at www.tisn.gov.au.