Critical infrastructure is becoming increasingly important by the day; its activity is critical for society’s smooth operation and development. Hence the slew of new policies, strategies and laws to cope with this situation and guarantee a high level of security in essential services. This has its drawbacks. After this legislation boom the sheer complexity of the Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) system means that any would-be operators of these services hardly dare enter the scenario

For this reason the foundation called Fundación Borredá, true to its across-the-board commitment to security, has drawn up the CIP Guide: Spain’s Critical Infrastructure Protection Model (Guía PIC: El Modelo de Protección de Infraestructuras Críticas en España), in collaboration with the National Critical Infrastructure Protection Center (Centro Nacional de Protección de las Infraestructuras Críticas: CNPIC). The contents have been generated by professionals of the cybersecurity world. GMV has been one of the collaborators of this second edition of the guide. Javier Zubieta, GMV’s Cybersecurity Business Development Manager, the main person involved, explains that “we at GMV have input our cybersecurity vision for CIP in a critical sector we know well, the space sector. Development and implementation of all the plans required by law, both for this sector and others, call for a lot of experience and a high technical level on the ground. One of our goals is therefore to help critical operators find their feet in terms of law compliance, encouraging them to view it as a chance to improve their security across the board.”

The guide gives a didactic and detailed account of critical infrastructure protection, system stakeholders, the critical-operator designation process, planning instruments, critical-infrastructure cybersecurity, sector-based strategy plans approved to date, the parties legally responsible for critical infrastructure, the situation at international level and CIP documentation and legislation, among many other factors.

The upshot is a guide to help any CIP stakeholders looking for clarity and precision in the complex legislation thicket that is today’s CIP world.