ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at the fundamental mind shifts that need to happen if people want to maintain their critical infrastructures in the current environment and in the future. The mission of critical infrastructures will depend on the specific sector, but there is some utility in establishing a generic mission statement for critical infrastructure assurance. One might attempt to describe the goal of the critical infrastructure sector in terms of a reliable and capable sector where reliability and credibility are established by a consistent performance that achieves the objectives of on demand (time), at the point of consumption (right destination), and acceptable quality. When looking at the concept of coupling and cohesion in the critical infrastructure domain, one can use a structure that uses a simple matrix to focus the efforts to get the balance between coupling and cohesion.
