National or international? --- This is interesting point. It is indeed a national asset. However even outside the "internet" the world today is more connected in different inter-governmental associations/unions. Lets take the European Union which achieved high degree of integration of member states. What happens to the EU If some part of the CI of Germany (national asset) shuts down due to a cyberattack!? Will the impact hit Germany only? or the whole E.U? Probably there is room and need to look on some critical CI as international assets. In this sense, is there a need for defining critical European infrastructure or even Critical World infrastructure?

Source author: Vladimir Nikolov vladimir984@yahoo.com