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Introduction
Jacob Brodsky and Robert Radvanovsky
Critical infrastructure consists of both physical- and cyber-based systems (along with
their assets) that are essential to an economic state such that the disruption or destruc-
tion of their operations would have a debilitating impact on the security, public health,
and safety of that economy. This transcends worldwide. These systems (and their assets)
provide essential, yet vital, products and services to our economies, which include prod-
ucts such as food and critical manufactured products, or services such as our electricity,
water and wastewater treatment facilities, chemical and oil production ...