Security & Future
Vol. 9 (2025), Issue 3, pg(s) 69-71

NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL SECURITY

Possible risks in implementing key partnerships to optimize critical infrastructure security

  • 1 Institute of Metal Science Equipment and Technologies with Hydro- and Aerodynamics Centre ―Acad. A Balevski, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria

Abstract

In international scientific circles, with a portfolio in the field of critical infrastructure security, there is consent that the main problem underlying the difficulty in securing critical infrastructure against various types of threats is the lack of a common understanding of what constitutes critical infrastructure. This challenge could hinder coordinated threat assessment, mutual assistance, and the implementation of key partnerships in prevention and response efforts, as intruders often define critical infrastructure based on its potential to cause maximum disruption.
This publication presents in a systematized form some directions in the author’s experience in developing approaches in building key partnerships for optimizing the security of critical infrastructure in the conditions of the QUASAR competence center.

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