Critical Infrastructure in the National Security System

Abstract

Aim: To present relationships resulting from legal regulations impacting the effectiveness of critical infrastructure protection, which is a part of the national security system. An auxiliary objective was a historical analysis illustrating the process of creating critical infrastructure in a modern form in the world and in Poland. Project and methods: Article is based on the principles of functionalism theory and using literature analysis, expert interviews, participating observation in the organised Critical Infrastructure Forums, inference and deduction. This made it possible to identify the directions for improving the functioning of critical infrastructure protection in terms of institutional cooperation and the impact of infrastructure on the national security system. Results: Removal of critical infrastructure protection vulnerabilities as a contribution to the elimination of a weak link in the national security system in the context of assessing the effectiveness and efficiency of the national security system. Conclusions: There is a need to create clear legislation and to integrate security entities in terms of institutional cooperation in the protection of critical infrastructure. This is related to the fact that in an organisation, which is a particular form of team activities, we often encounter chaos intensified by solutions which are the more inaccurate, the less the formation mechanism of disturbing factors is known. Then we experience only the consequences of their impact, responding according to the circumstances.

Keywords

• critical infrastructure
• national security
• infrastructure protection
• classified information
• security management
• efficiency and effectiveness of operations