ABSTRACT
Critical infrastructure protection (CIP) challenges traditional concepts of organizing programs into administrative silos. Many professionals practicing in the fi eld will recognize the challenges faced as programs intersect and, in some cases, even come into confl ict. Th e fact is that security incidents are only one potential source of disruption to critical services. Critical infrastructure protection demands that professionals set aside any issues they might have and focus on fi nding solutions to a number of challenges. Consider the recent situation in Denver, Colorado, in December 2006 that left thousands of passengers stranded, or another example involving passengers at Heathrow Airport in London (at the same time), which estimated to have aff ected more than 40,000 persons.1 Th e concern focuses entirely on recovering travel capabilities (resuming a status quo of the system). Th e issue of how to deal with extended periods of an interruption or disruption will follow later.
