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The Conference Board of Canada's April 2011 Report analyzes the current state of Canadian electricity infrastructure and examines the investments that might be made between 2010 and 2030 in Canada’s electricity generation, transmission, and distribution industries.
Prepared by Barbara Baker, Ioulia Skokin, Len Coad and Todd Crawford.
As I read the 54 page report, I am reminded of what Charles Perrow famously called a normal accident; "...the kind of accident one can expect in the normal functioning of a technologically complex operation". (Malcolm Gladwell, 2010)
April 11, 2011
Investing in Canada's Aging Infrastructure
Barrie McKenna, Globe & Mail Columnist, ignites a debate with today's commentary regarding the decrepit state of Canada's infrastructure.
How do economic conditions and natural disasters affect supply chain? Mitigating potential threats will be the focus of the Supply Chain Risk Management Forum, hosted by The Conference Board of Canada, today.
For more information, visit: http://www.conferenceboard.ca/conf/11-0058/default.aspx
March 26, 2011
Energy Infrastructure Protection in Canada
The Defence R&D Canada Contract Report, prepared by Angela Gendron (Canadian Centre for Intelligence and Securty Studies, Carleton Univeristy), speaks to Canada's disparate strategies for the protection of CI and EM across provincial jurisdictions and, "in the absence of an overarching coordinating authority, national infrastructure owners and operators (of which 80% of energy sector assets and installations are privately owned and operated) have adopted different risk management…
The Master of Infrastructure Protection and International Security is designed to offer students a cross sector understanding of critical infrastructure protection challenges. To learn more about the MIPIS program, visit:
www.carleton.ca/calendars/grad/current/programs/infrastructureprotectionandinternationalsecurity_m.html
Ottawa Citizen article by Ian MacLeod, "Hackers attacking power grid...Ontario utilities among the targets" (March 15, 2011)
The article highlights the first piece of malware built not only to spy on industrial control systems, but to reprogram them - Stuxnet; a computer worm that has caused a major rethinking of computer security around the globe.
Article link: http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Hackers+attacking+power+grid+warn+insiders/4439842/story.html
March 18, 2011
Defence IQ Article on Critical Infrastructure
An outstanding article by Dave Mugridge, 'Masters of Disaster: Private Firms Ante Up to the CI Protection Game' in Defence IQ. Learn more about private sector provisions for national security.
The declaration focuses on 4 areas of cooperation: addressing threats early, trade & economic growth, integrated cross-border law enforcement and critical infrastructure/cyber-security; “We intend to work together to prevent, respond to, and recover from physical & cyber disruptions of critical infrastructure...” For more info on the public consultation or to submit comments, visit www.borderactionplan.gc.ca. The public consultation period is scheduled to run from March 13 to April 21, 2011.
To submit comments, visit www.borderactionplan.gc.ca
My colleague Grant Lecky, National Coordinator Business Continuity for Citizenship and Immigration Canada, brought to my attention the new university accredited 3 phase program delivered by Schulich School of Business York University. To inquiry about the program, contact Program Director George Platsis at (416) 736-5079. A program brochure is attached. Thanks Grant!
PCIP certification is made up of 3 courses: Program, Technical and Applied. PCIP teaches students how to evaluate the ability of an organization to rapidly respond to an incident, quickly recover operations and service delivery by utilizing a threat/risk assessment model. A PCIP certificate is used to show expertise in the field.
For more information, visit the Critical Infrastructure Institute (CII) at:
http://www.ci-institute.com/
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