Title | System Protection and the Benefit of Others – a Service Perspective |
Publication Type | 04. Conference Papers |
Year of Publication | 2017 |
Authors | Maurer, F., & Fritzsche A. |
Conference Name | Annual Conference of the Society for Philosophy and Technology (SPT) |
Conference Location | Darmstadt |
Abstract | Historic efforts to ensure the availability of the critical infrastructures of society (CI) built on the principles of redundancy and stock-keeping. This, however, is often economically unfeasible and usually difficult to sustain. Normal Accident Theory (NAT) and – its rival – the High Reliability Theory (HRT) have added a higher level of reflection, leading to alternative concepts such as robustness and resilience. At the same time, they have shifted the focus of the efforts from CI as a service for the benefit of society to CI as a separate entity that is protected for its own sake. A similar development can be observed in the shift of efforts from the protection of CI in general to the protection of the information and communication technologies (ICT) in CI. |