Critical infrastructures risk management

Abstract

The goal of this thesis is to study the critical infrastructures, their meaning and importance inside of a business. To study also who and how needs to manage those critical infrastructures. In addition, to understand what may be the consequences, as a result of the lack or the malfunction of the critical infrastructures with no replacement of any of them, for an automobile repair workshop and that business sector to be studied, in general. The methods followed for the development of this essay include the search on the net, especially on the Google scholars and on the Open’s University Online Library (my Athens) for articles and books related to this topic in order to better understand and develop this research. Moreover, a visit on a business of a specific automobile repair workshop located in Nicosia, Cyprus and the interview from the business’s employer and the employees with whom I remained in continues communication during the development of this study in order to get the most possible feedback from them and their job and the requirements around the critical infrastructures. Finally, the close watches to their job from my part. The results of this study are achieved. The critical infrastructures are well identified and the case of the automobile repair workshops has been developed and analyzed through the bowtie method in a way that can serve the business’s operations and continuity.