**CNI 2009 Conference Presentations Now Available**

The UK’s complex networks of Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) are the veins and arteries upon which its political, social and economic well being depend. In our increasingly just-in-time society, the UK’s reliance on its CNI has continued to grow and our dependence is now such that even fleeting disruption is potentially disastrous.

In the coming years, the protection of critical infrastructure will be shaped by a growing understanding and practical experience of the threat posed by climate change and growing energy insecurity. These new drivers run in parallel with the global financial crisis. The economic downtown has the potential to constrict security spending and further reduce levels of redundancy within critical networks and services. As a result, the challenges for those protecting infrastructure seem destined to multiply.

In Europe, in the midst of these changing contexts, the new European Directive on Critical Infrastructure Protection has been created. Meanwhile, in the US the incoming administration has committed itself to massive investment in infrastructure. All of these factors combined to ensure that RUSI’s third annual critical infrastructure conference was a very timely event.

RUSI’s CNI conferences have now firmly established themselves as the forum for networking and discussion between senior policy makers and practitioners concerned with the UK’s CNI across the public and private sectors.

Recent conferences have featured outstanding line-ups of decision makers and thought leaders from the UK, EU and beyond. Building further on RUSI’s unrivalled reputation in the field of CNI, our 2009 event featured our most impressive collection of contributors to-date.

Speakers Included:

• 'Security and the National Infrastructure'
  Lord West, Parliamentary under-secretary of state for security and counter-terrorism
• 'The Challenges of Protecting an Evolving Infrastructure'
  Director, Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI)
• Stephen Smith, Director, Prepare, Protect, Science and CBRNE, Home Office
• 'Future Strategy for the Development of Transport Security'
  Niki Tompkinson, Director, TRANSEC
• 'Recent EU Developments in Critical Infrastructure Protection'
  Dick Heimans, Head of Sector, Counter Terrorism, European Commission
• 'Electronic Delivery of Public Services and it Implications'
  Andrew Stott, Deputy Government Chief Information Officer, Transformational Government, Cabinet Office
• Nick Raynsford MP
• 'Energy Infrastructure, Security of Supply and the Challenges for the UK'
  Peter Mather, Vice President, BP Europe
• 'Delivering Energy Resilience through Markets and Infrastructure'
  Michael Rutter, Dept. of Energy and Climate Change
• 'Resilience and Complexity'
  Dr. Steve Marsh, Cabinet Office
• 'Energy Security - The Foreign Office Perspective'
  James Husemeyer, Energy Adviser, Middle East and North Africa, Foreign and Commonwealth Office
• 'International Critical Infrastructure Protection: Global Risks, Global Solutions'
  Brandon Wales, Director, Homeland Infrastructure Threat and Risk Analysis Center (HITRAC), US Department of Homeland Security
• Steve Cummings, Special Advisor, Deloitte LLP
• 'Governance: The Invisible CNI'
  Laurence Marzell, CNI Scan Programme Lead, Serco Consulting
• 'Enhancing CNI Protection with the Private Sector'
  David Taylor-Smith, CEO UK & Ireland, G4S
• 'Changing Telecoms Infrastructure: Changing Threats'
  Mark Hughes, Group Security Director, BT
• 'Critical Infrastructure and Utility Regulation: A Joined Up Approach'
  Professor Dieter Helm, Oxford University
• 'Defending Critical Infrastructure: Emerging Issues'
  Alan Stilwell, Institution of Civil Engineers
• Mark Norbury, National Ambulance Emergency Preparedness Coordinator

Topics covered included:

• Changing Infrastructure, Changing Threats.
• Shifting International Contexts and the Implications for Critical Infrastructure.
• Reducing Vulnerability to the Insider Threat: Three Perspectives.
• New and Growing Infrastructure Dependencies.
• Resilient National Infrastructure in a Climate Changed World.
• Developing Appropriate Frameworks for Future Infrastructure Protection.
• Energy Infrastructure, Security of Supply and the Challenges they pose for the UK. 

Please click here to view the conference programme.