How can command and incident management teams remain able to act when reports arrive from different sources and several damaging incidents must be managed at the same time? Hagen Peukert addresses this question in his white paper “Attack on critical infrastructure – command capability is essential for a resilient response”. ORCRIST is making the publication, issued by CIVITAS Europe, available to download here.
Complex crises require clear responsibilities
Disruptions and attacks on critical infrastructure can affect several services and areas of responsibility at the same time. Operators, authorities and emergency responders must then coordinate their actions while the information available continues to change.
The white paper examines how separate information holdings, unclear responsibilities and competing commitments among personnel can make crisis management more difficult. An explicitly fictional major incident scenario illustrates the pressures on command and incident management teams. It is not a forecast for a real location.
Making information useful for command decisions
A shared situational picture is intended to help the organisations involved assess reports and data in context. This requires baseline data, current observations and measurements to be brought together, checked and prepared for decision-making.
Peukert links this information work to the need for a clearly defined, practised and appropriately equipped command structure. The statutory responsibilities of the organisations involved remain in place. A shared situational picture supports their cooperation.
Data fusion to support situational assessment
The white paper describes how data fusion and AI-assisted analysis can support the processing of extensive information. The value of a situational picture depends on the available sources, permissions and operating conditions.
The graphic illustrates how different reports and data can be brought together. It describes a principle and does not confirm any existing technical connections.
The publication is intended for those responsible at critical infrastructure operators and authorities, as well as command and incident management teams. The author is Hagen Peukert; the publisher is CIVITAS Europe.