The ever-present dangers of natural disasters and technological accidents have contributed to the issue of critical infrastructure protection becoming an indispensable part of national security strategies. Communities are permanently facing increased weather variability, but also an unstable economic and geopolitical situation. Due to these turbulences, the area of critical infrastructure protection is experiencing significant changes in terms of operational needs, challenges and threats. In this regard, there was a need for theoretical and practical analysis of this area, as well as the creation of practicums to solve identified problems. Recognizing this need, the Institute for Risk Assessment and Critical Infrastructure from Podgorica decided to publish a series of books \u201cCritical Infrastructure Protection\u201d that keeps pace with key changes, expanding historical research, exploring major areas of interest for critical infrastructure, regulatory framework, cooperation, risk and planned response, recovery and prevention, and providing support to those working on themselves, whether they are government regulators, operators, stakeholders and clients of various infrastructure sectors, or preparing their organizations and companies for challenges likely to arise in the coming period.<\/p>\n
The first book<\/strong> in the series is entitled Critical Infrastructure Protection: Normative, Planning and Strategic Framework<\/strong>. Namely, it is indisputable that facilities, systems, processes and operations in parts of critical infrastructure can be endangered in various ways, which includes appropriate normative, organizational, security and technical prerequisites for their normal functioning, i.e. for prevention and elimination of threatening actions. Starting from that, the first book of the series gives an expanded and improved view of the conceptual definition, history of protection and current protection of critical infrastructure in the Balkans, EU countries, the USA and Great Britain<\/p>\n