System resilience governance

Abstract

Globalization, Digitalization, Forth industry revolution (interconnected cyber-physical systems), Internet of ‘Everything’ all require new method, concepts, and solutions to document, understand, analyze, operate, control, and transform critical infrastructure as a whole or in parts. It is not new that critical infrastructures are highly interconnected and collaborative and therefore susceptible to domino effects supported by their systemic dependencies. Yet, it is still often a surprise when something does not work. The reason for this is deeply embedded in the very issue governance: the often-unknown system purpose of parts of a comprehensive system of systems landscape, the dynamic driven by a volatile environment, the ongoing change, cyber events, and the impact of politic or social media. A matter of fact is in-transparency and a missing or not properly maintained dependency does not help to manage a normal as well as a complex situation—a system of system landscape under special circumstances.