Improving the Critical Infrastructure Protection against to New Crisis:Focused on the EMP Threats

Improving the Critical Infrastructure Protection against to New Crisis:Focused on the EMP Threats

Critical infrastructure is classified as a national concern because of its scope and its importance to the nation. Especially, in modern society, national security, economic prosperity and public welfare, are seriously dependent on a set of critical infrastructure mainly consisting of national power grid, telecommunications, and oil and gas. Unfortunately, however, the critical Infrastructure is widely considered to be vulnerable, because natural disasters and social resentment of those malicious attacks can cause damage to the infrastructure systems, so as to the associated services are not reliable, or even not available. At present many developed countries have already carried out large-scale research on this issue, but Korea's current research in this area is still in near-empty state, so the study of this issue is more urgent. Especially, the purpose of this concept paper is to draw critical infrastructure protection from electromagnetic pulse (EMP), the sharing of knowledge through USA and the Korea comparative study. To draw the implications for defending EMP Attack in Korea, we analyzed the USA policy issues to protect critical infrastructure from EMP Attack. Ultimately, we should be research how to build up defensive systems for protecting the critical infrastructure from EMP threats.