Concepts for enhancing critical infrastructure protection : relating Y2K to CIP research and development.

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TextPublication details: Santa Monica, Calif. : RAND, 2002Description: 81 pDDC classification:

363.3497 21

Subject: The Y2K crisis involved thousands of firms and nearly every government in the world in a massive effort to head off potential system failures in computer infrastructures that were feared in the event of the date change from 1999 to 2000. In the wakr of these efforts, costing hundreds of billions of dollars over several years, massive system failures did not materialize. Did the large-scale global effort prevent these failures? What are the relevant lessons from Y2K for critical infrastructure protection (CIP) more generally and where do we need to know more? This project addressed those questions.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Australian Emergency Management Library	BOOK	363.34970973 CON (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		900083883

Includes bibliography pp. 73-81

The Y2K crisis involved thousands of firms and nearly every government in the world in a massive effort to head off potential system failures in computer infrastructures that were feared in the event of the date change from 1999 to 2000. In the wakr of these efforts, costing hundreds of billions of dollars over several years, massive system failures did not materialize. Did the large-scale global effort prevent these failures? What are the relevant lessons from Y2K for critical infrastructure protection (CIP) more generally and where do we need to know more? This project addressed those questions.

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