Decision Support System for the Monitoring and Risk Analysis of National Critical Entities

The EU Directive “Critical Entity Resilience” (CER Directive) has clearly indicated the need for a change of paradigm in the domain of protection and resilience enhancement of Critical Infrastructures. On the one hand, it has extended the set of Infrastructure having the right to be considered as “critical” and, accordingly must be coherently managed and protected, as it were a unique “system of systems”. On the other hand, the removal of the terms “protection” and “infrastructure” to leave room for the terms “entity” and “resilience” provides further evidence that, besides a complete interdependence among the physical systems (the “infrastructure”), a considerable role and relevance are played by the stakeholders, the operators which have a critical role in infrastructure’s management. The present work highlights the major issues needed to comply with the cited changes of paradigm implied in the CER Directive and the description of technological results allowing the implementation of these changes into an operational contest. The operational implementation of these strategies and technologies in Italy has been designed to be cast into a best practice, currently under further development, which might constitute a driver initiative that could be replicated in other EU Member States. An example of the capabilities of the technologies purposely realized to implement the strategy will be given.