What are critical infrastructures, and why are they important?
We are in the midst of a tremendous cultural change — a change that affects every aspect of our lives. The cyber, or information age, dimension promotes accelerating reliance on our infrastructures — telecommunications, electrical power systems, gas and oil storage and transportation, banking and finance, transportation, water supply systems, emergency services (including medical, police, fire, and rescue), and continuity of government — and offers access to them from all over the world, blurring traditional borders and jurisdictions. Art defense is not just about government anymore, and economic security is not just about business. The critical infrastructures are central to our defense and our economic power, and we must lay the foundations for their future security on a new form of cooperation between the private sector and the artist community. The artist community has an important role to play in defense against cyber, or nonphysical and often nontraditional, threats. It can co
