Critical Infrastructure/Key Resource Managment
The U.S. Patriot Act defines critical infrastructure as
"systems and assets, whether physical or virtual, so vital to the United States that the incapacity or destruction of such systems and assets would have a debilitating impact on security, national economic security, national public health or safety, or any combination of those matters." [1]
This definition is applicable to the elements that constitute the building blocks of today’s global businesses. In today's society, an organization, be it government or private, cannot solely focus attention to the individual infrastructures under its cognizance or control, but instead must maintain a larger view due to the intertwining of resources and information demands existing between individual components. Key Resources are publicly or privately controlled resources essential to the minimal operations of an organization, the economy and government.
Most modern commercial infrastructures are composed of a collection of interconnected networks of key resources (both physical and computer based) that serve different purposes and have different owners. Indeed, even parts of the information residing on a single sub-network may have different purposes and different owners.
The open architecture employed in TACCS™ facilitates the collection and display of data from multiple sources without the need to recreate databases. This process also avoids the inadvertent creation of a permanent record containing data that when aggregated presents a security risk.
[1] United States Congress. 2001. U.S.A. Patriot Act [online]. Available via < http://www.epic.org/privacy/terrorism/hr3162.html>