UII UPDATE 291 | OCTOBER 2024
Intelligence Update

Critical national infrastructure status: what does it mean?

Governments have been classifying data centers as part of the critical national infrastructure (CNI), adding them to the list of services essential to keep a nation functioning in the event of a major incident.

CNI covers a range of sectors, such as power, water and food distribution, as well as healthcare and emergency services. CNI plans are designed to ensure that key services can access the resources they need to continue to function in the event of a natural disaster, a major accident or a physical or digital attack. The plans also look at interdependencies between sectors.

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