ABSTRACT
Critical infrastructures are those services, sites, and technical networks which governments regard as indispensable and which are therefore to be protected from disruptions. Each experience of an electrical power failure emphasizes those technologies that do not work without electricity, ranging from lights and refrigerators to elevators, desktop computers, and Internet connections. Power failure statistics and probabilistic thinking may cause further concerns about looming power failures and their risk levels. A high-level economic defence committee worked since 1924, led by Senator Kaarlo Castren, a former Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Finland. This body was established to determine "what activities we must pursue so that our nation could withstand the possible perils and difficulties of a war with as few difficulties and losses as possible." In 1929, the Finnish Parliament accepted the proposal for the Economic Defence Council. Although stressing military matters already in its name, the concerns regarding this office were actually more wide ranging, as historian Ilkka Seppinen notes.
