Infrastructure Security Plenary Session
Moderator and Panelist:
Allan Berg, Assistant Dean and Director, Information Assurance and Infrastructure Protection Center, Capitol College, U.S.A.
Panelists:
* Alan Fung, National Director of China, Information Systems Security Association
* Dr. Ruth A. David, President & CEO, Analytic Services Inc.
* Choi Tak Tsan, Manager, Special Projects, MTR Corporation
* Patrick J Healy, Security Manager, Property Management Department, MTR Corporation

March 29, 14.50 – 15.50

Threat categories today include weapons of mass destruction and conventional explosives, physical and cyber terrorism and warfare, global conflicts, and natural disasters. Understanding a nation's critical infrastructures and their relationships to one-another, are critical to safeguarding and managing the infrastructures when under threat. The safeguarding and management process requires an in-depth understanding of: information elements of key asset identification; threat and vulnerability analysis; risk assessment and management; crisis and consequence management; countermeasures; and technologies for their ability to support planning, mitigation, response, recovery, and prediction. Leaders and managers responsible for shaping and carrying out policy must successfully deal with the inter-relationship of defense, government-wide and non-governmental information and infrastructure systems; strategic and contingency planning; systems integration; and sharing of information.