Integrating Critical

Infrastructure Protection
Aspects in Danube Strategy
Dr. Liviu Muresan
EURISC Foundation, Romania
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The Danube A Main Artery of EUs Beating Heart
A Strategy for Coherent Danube Development is Long Overdue
The Danube River covers 110 million people and a fifth of the EU Surface
14 countries 8 EU states, 6 non EU states
The EU Strategy for the Danube is dedicated to improving the life of
European citizens in areas such as mobility, connectivity, environmental
protection, energy efficiency, economic and social development etc.


Transportation is Central to Danube Synergies
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Transport infrastructure is fundamental for the smooth operation of the
internal market, for the mobility of persons and goods and for the
economic, social and territorial cohesion of the European Union.

Most of the transport infrastructures have been developed under
national policy premises. The Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T)
provides a vision for a unified European multi-modal transport system:
Filling in missing links
Removing bottlenecks
Sustainable and efficient from an energy and climate perspective
Integrating land, water, air modes full multimodality

All within the context of a doubling of expected interstate EU traffic by
2020. Beyond that, integration with Black Sea systems, including the
planned ring of highways will connect Central Europe to the Near East
and beyond.
The DANUBE is a key part of the TEN-T, and the success of the Danube
Strategy makes or breaks the TEN-T network.

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Highly Connected and Essential Infrastructure and
Asset Types all found in Danube vicinity
Highly Connected
& Interdependent
Infrastructures
Essential &
Dependent
Infrastructure
Public &
Private
Sectors
Asset Types
Communications
Energy
Transportation
Banking and
Finance
Water
Sewer
Health Care
Government
Agriculture/
Food
Residential
Commercial
Industrial
Medical
Military
Water storage
Power plants
and lines
Gas lines
Buildings
Bridges
Etc.
National, regional,
and local economic
security depends on
these infrastructures
Human health and
safety (fire, police,
EMS) depend on
these infrastructures
Source of
economic
demand for
infrastructures
Natural and
unintentional
disaster locations
and terrorist targets
Based on the National Infrastructure Simulation & Analysis Center - Capability
Development Strategy. Content modified to support GITAs GECCo Program - USA
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The Danube Paradigm
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Critical Infrastructure Interdependencies
Danube river of complexities
Source: Heller, M (2001). Interdependencies of Civil Infrastructure Systems. The Bridge, a publication of the Nation Academy of Engineering. V. $, #31, 2001
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Priorities for EU, State and Companies
- Legal authorities and CI management structures;
- All hazard approach - a risk analysis based on major threat
scenarios, vulnerability of each asset, and potential impact
shall be conducted;
- Operators Security Plans and Security Liaison Officers for each
designated Critical Infrastructure (from companies, to
authorities at local and national level);
- Interdependencies and Resilience studies;
- EU and National Strategies, as well as Legislation;
- CI sectors representatives to define cross-cutting criteria for
evaluation and negotiations on the basis of the severity of the
disruption or destruction of the CI:
a) Public effect (number of population affected);
b) Economic effect (significance of economic loss and/or
degradation of products or services);
c) Environmental effect;
d) Political effects;
e) Psychological effects
- Functional information sharing system;
- From Physical Security to Cyber security measures (CIIP);
- Research, training and experience sharing training the
trainers and developing a CIP professional community.

Strategy for
Energy
Security and
Protection of
Critical
Infrastructures
in Romania
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Swiss Knives for state and companies
Energy Security War Room (ENSEWARO)
From war gaming to serious gaming

Potential end-users of this product: companies, state authorities
or international organizations, having to take rapid decisions,
based on alternative scenarios, needing long term vision, in an
increasingly complex and challenging security environment.

The stabilisation of instability is possible based on the
approaches of system of systems and infranomics for a
sustainable development of the end-user with business continuity
and quality of life incorporated.

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Swiss Knives (2)
ENSEWARO (continued)
What does it offer? A unique platform for Training,
simulation and command, integrating hard & soft
components.
What is it using? Visualisation techniques for
numerous participants, incl. iPhone and iPad users,
integrating information & images (also from UAVs).
As a smart energy security and critical infrastructure
protection system of systems, ENSEWARO
provides eventually, to the leadership of the end
user alternative scenarios for decision taking 24/7
based on the to do more with less concept.
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Swiss Knives (3):
City Security War Room (CISEWARO)
The potential end-users of this product could be ministries of defence,
of interior, civil protection institutions, municipalities, companies of
critical infrastructures
The focus will be on the current city vulnerabilities with regard to hard
infrastructure components, their protection and improvement,
investment prioritisation and impact assessment.
Factors such as traffic and transport management, natural hazards,
major disruptions such as blackouts, water, food security,
environmental security and waste management, terrorist and
organized crime threats, population shift phenomena, large scale
social unrest, essential supply services and emergency and response
services are essential factors in streamlining the capacity building of
the administration and offering the instruments required to project the
improvement of life quality in the city in the perspective of long term
development.
Infranomics: A Discipline of Disciplines
for the 21
st
Century
Infranomics (by Prof. Adrian Gheorghe and Dr. Marcelo Masera) will be
the discipline of disciplines, grouping all needed knowledge
Infranomics, after infrastructure (supporting vital societal technical
functions) and nomics (after Gr. nomos, set of rules), the
discipline-of-disciplines studying the metasystem.






Next generation infrastructure concept (NL)
" The new generation of infrastructures will be constructed upon the
existing ones, however the services, architecture, business models and
attributes of those newly developed systems will signify a qualitative leap
forward, and not just more of the same.
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Developing the Security
Culture of the Danube Region

developing and organizing educational programs, training, consultancy, security
research and development, in the field of safety, the security of citizens and local
communities, civil emergency, national and European critical infrastructure protection;
training for experts, managers and security liaison officers as well as for
consolidating a security culture for preparing the population for emergency situations,
industrial accidents, environmental catastrophes, men made or natural disasters and
other crisis situations, risk and vulnerabilities, mentioned by EU and national legal
documents in force;
promoting logistics resources necessary for training / educational processes, as well
as for specific exercises and in response to the above mentioned situations, as
required by EU legislation and according to national and international standards;

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Danube Security Forum
Goals:

Promoting interest in security culture and education among private and public
organization through the use of media and events;
Integrating security education in learning centers, for primary, secondary and
tertiary levels, as well as for adults in public institutions, through trainings, seminars,
conferences, roundtable events a.o.;
Establishing and maintaining permanent collaboration with scientific organizations
in the Danube region and with renowned experts in the field of security, as well as
with governmental and non-governmental bodies interested in security culture or
related fields;
Developing security skills and competences among interested partners, either
physical persons or organizations;
Participation in conferences, projects and communication sessions in the field of
security, organized by institutes of higher learning in the Danube region, local and
central public authorities, or institutions with responsibilities in the area of security

CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION
Cooperation between the government,
business sector and civil society


The aim of the Romanian Association for the
Protection of Critical Infrastructures and Related
Services ARPIC, is to bring together specialists from
different fields, so as to contribute to the
understanding and harmonization of specific norms
and operating procedures for the protection of
critical infrastructures and related services, in
Romania, as well as at regional, European and
international levels.
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Dr. Liviu Muresan
Executive President
EURISC Foundation & ARPIC

PO BOX 2 101 Bucuresti 2, Romania
Tel.: 0040 21 212 21 02;
E-mail: eurisc@eurisc.org
Web: www.eurisc.org