The Protection of Critical Infrastructures

Abstract

The attacks against the World Trade Center on 9/11 served to underscore the importance of the new threats and vulnerabilities with which States must currently deal when it comes to lay out the security of the critical infrastructures. An attack of this kind entails a loss both economic and of human life, as well as it affects political credibility of governments. Summed up with an ever growing demand of depleting and finite resources, as well as context of climate change and readjustment of the international power balance, this situation has supposed that the national security strategies of many countries, amongst them Spain, have vested a greater deal of importance to the critical infrastructure security dimension. However, although both the 2009 and 2013 National Security Strategy brought Spain in line with European directives on this matter, we have not witnessed a further development beyond general