There has been increasing recognition across government, demonstrated by formation of the CPNI, of a need to reduce the vulnerability of the UK Critical National Infrastructure. However,
whilst CNI owners and operators benefit from government advice and are developing their respective capabilities, there is need for a more joined up approach from Industry to develop, capture and share
best practice.
This is the premise for CNI Scan (Shared Capability Advisory Network): a collaborative programme that aims, at an operational and practitioners level, to build upon existing good practice and enhance security, risk and resilience planning in the CNI ‘for the benefit of the CNI’.
Given the complex interdependencies which characterise the UK CNI, the programme aims to embrace stakeholders at all levels including Public Sector bodies, Government agencies, Academia and the Private Sector industrial base that oversees, operates, advises, and provides research and services into the CNI. The intent is to provide Senior Risk Owners with a more
in-depth understanding and analysis of their organisations security, risk and resilience situation whether in relation to man-made, man assisted or natural hazards.
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CNI SCAN PRESENTATION |
CNI SCAN Q&A's |
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The CNI Scan Programme objectives will be achieved through a series of collaborative system level projects across the 9 CNI sectors. These will
reflect an enterprise-wide approach in embracing the public and private
sector supply chains that make up the CNI ‘System of Systems’.
These projects will adopt MODAF to analyse the current good practice approaches of individual stakeholders and the security, risk and resilience landscape in which they operate. Horizon scanning and war games supported by scenario planning, visualisation and experimentation then follows. Current and future capability gaps uncovered can then be targeted for policy and doctrinal change, business process re-engineering, technology or system enhancement and future R&D.
This learning will feed development of system level best practice approaches spanning the complex web of people, processes, systems,
technology and governance that is today’s CNI. Approaches that can be shared and continuously improved ‘for the benefit of the CNI’
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Specific focus is given to multistakeholder boundaries: the gaps between organisations where it is particularly challenging to achieve high levels of resilience. |
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