Title: Critical supply chain systems and critical infrastructure protection

Authors: Matthew J. Warren, Shona Leitch

Addresses: School of Information Systems, Faculty of Business and Law, Deakin University, Building lb, Elgar Road, Burwood 3125, Australia. ' School of Information Systems, Faculty of Business and Law, Deakin University, Building lb, Elgar Road, Burwood 3125, Australia

Abstract: Secure management of Australia|s commercial critical infrastructure presents ongoing challenges to both the owners of this infrastructure as well as to the government. It is currently managed through high-level information sharing via collaboration but does this situation suit the commercial sector? One of the issues facing Australia is that the majority of critical infrastructure resides under the control of the business sector and certain aspects such of the critical infrastructure such as supply chain management (SCM) systems are distributed across a number of entities. The paper focuses upon the security and risk issues associated with SCM systems within the realms of critical infrastructure protection.

Keywords: critical infrastructures; infrastructure protection; risk; security; Australia; supply chain management; SCM; critical supply chains.

DOI: 10.1504/IJLEG.2010.032427

International Journal of Logistics Economics and Globalisation, 2010 Vol.2 No.2, pp.107 - 117

Published online: 02 Apr 2010 *

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