Did my best to try to understand this one. I intially thought they were designing a SCADA protection system, but its basicially a $20 million effort to collate data across certain industries.

Ruddock seems pretty keen on that cake.
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The Critical Infrastructure Protection Modeling and Assessment (CIPMA) program, a product of Geoscience Australia, the CSIRO and the Attorney-General’s department, will examine the relationships and dependencies between critical infrastructure systems to demonstrate how failures in one sector affect other sector operations.

The $20 million program collates operational data from the banking and finance, communications, energy and water industries such as supply chain, distribution and expenditure details, information on architectural design including machinery, and network vulnerabilities and dependencies.

Greg Scott, technical development team leader for Geoscience Australia which resides within the Department of Industry, Tourism and Resources, said the CIPMA database will contain critical information normally siloed within organizations to build business resiliency and continuity.

“The industries know their information better than anyone so we want to draw that data out so if a bush fire or cyclone causes outages, we can determine the cost, time and social impacts across other industries,” Scott said.

“Its about vulnerability mitigation so we know where to build extra back-up and where weaknesses exist.”

Darren,

Thanks for the links. That’s the first I heard about it. That’s part of the problem….who hears about this stuff?

DD