Wiley Handbook of Science and Technology for Homeland Security, 4 Volume Set

NEW ZEALAND*

MANUEL SUTER AND ELGIN BRUNNER

Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich, Switzerland

1 CRITICAL SECTORS

Critical information infrastructure protection (CIIP) in New Zealand is about the protection of infrastructure necessary to provide critical services. “Critical services are those whose interruption would have a serious adverse effect on New Zealand as a whole or on a large proportion of the population, and which would require immediate reinstatement” [1]. New Zealand's critical sectors comprise the assets and systems required for the maintenance of [1]:

• Emergency Services,
• Energy (including Electricity Generation and Distribution, and the Distribution of Oil and Gas),
• Finance and Banking,
• Governance (including Law and Order and National and Economic Security),
• Telecommunications and the Internet,
• Transport (including Air, Land, and Sea).

The various critical sectors depend on each other. Most systems assume the continuity of power and telecommunications infrastructures and make extensive use of networked information technology in their management and control systems.

2 PAST AND PRESENT INITIATIVES AND POLICIES

The New Zealand government's Defence Policy Framework is a crucial document illustrating that CIIP is a key objective of the country's overall security policy. The Centre for Critical Infrastructure Protection (CCIP) [2] addresses the cyber-threat aspects of that objective.

2.1 CIIP within the Defence Policy Framework

New Zealand's government promotes ...