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Critical National Infrastructure 2011
Now in their fifth year, RUSI’s CNI conferences are firmly established as the most important public forum for discussion of critical infrastructure policy. This year the conference explored the full breadth of reform to CNI policy and delivered insights on security and resilience priorities in the period ahead.
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Conference Session Structure:
Session One - Cyber Security, Information Assurance and CNI
This session explored the growing importance of cyber networks to critical infrastructure, the changing nature of cyber threats and the technologies, strategies and partnerships best suited to counter them.
Session Two - Natural Hazards and Infrastructure Resilience
This session examined the threats posed by extreme weather to essential services within the UK, and highlighted the contingency measures through which critical infrastructures might be protected from natural hazards.
Session Three - The Future of UK Energy Security
This session examined the existing strategies for securing energy supplies within the UK, the vulnerability of these supplies to both natural and man-made hazards, and the challenges and opportunities which emerge from the UK’s transition to a low-carbon economy.
Session Four - Nuclear Safety and Security
This session explored the current threats to civil nuclear sites within the UK, and the lessons which government, industry and regulatory bodies can learn from the recent events in Fukushima, Japan.
Participants:
- Charles Hendry MP, Minister of State, Department of Energy and Climate Change
- Sir Robert Smith MP, Energy and Climate Change Select Committee
- Dr Mike Weightman, HM Chief Inspector of Nuclear Installations and Head of ONR
- Lord Hutton of Furness, Chairman, RUSI, and Chairman, Nuclear Industry Association
- Senior Manager, Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI)
- Sir Paul Lever KCMG, Vice President, RUSI Council
- Janice Dunn Lee, Deputy Director-General, OECD Nuclear Energy Agency
- Michael Rutter, Head of Energy Resilience, Department of Energy and Climate Change
- Professor Jim Skea, Research Director, UK Energy Research Centre
- David Smith, Chief Executive, Energy Networks Association
- Paul Warwick, Co-chair, Oil and Gas UK and President, ConocoPhillips
- Paul Mustow, Head of Centre, Flood Forecasting Centre
- Mike St John Green, Deputy Director, Office of Cyber Security and Information Assurance (OCSIA), Cabinet Office
- Graham Dalton, Chief Executive, Highways Agency
- Dr Tim Morgan, Global Head of Research, Tullett Prebon
- Laurence Marzell, CNI Scan Programme Lead, Serco
- Lior Frenkel, Co-Founder and CEO, Waterfall Security Solutions
- Dr Tobias Feakin, Director of National Security and Resilience, RUSI
- Mark Naysmith, Director of Corporate Security, Deloitte
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