Critical telecommunications infrastructure protection in Brazil

Critical infrastructure protection is a concern that directly affects not only companies or governments, but also whole countries. This project focuses specifically on the telecommunications infrastructure, upon which many other critical infrastructures are dependent. This paper presents a model for critical infrastructure protection and a set of four methodologies that support the model, the first of which is MCI (methodology for critical infrastructure identification). MCI considers social, political and economic aspect to define the actual context of a country and, based on this context, it is possible to identify exactly which portions of the infrastructure can be considered critical. Application of MCI to the Brazilian telecommunications sector is demonstrated.