Risk management of critical infrastructure

Introduction. In the conditions of war and other systemic challenges, deepening the scientific understanding of risk management of critical infrastructure facilities (CIF) is an urgent scientific and practical task of public administration. Creating a systemic conceptual vision of the application of approaches, methods, forms and tools for managing CIF risks will help to respond quickly and timely to external disturbances, attacks, and disruptions to the normal operation of such facilities. Problem Statement. Risk management of critical infrastructure facilities. The purpose is to deepen scientific understanding and to systematize the directions of public risk management of critical infrastructure facilities. Methods. General scientific and special methods were used: analysis and synthesis, theoretical generalization and abstract logic, comparison, systematic. =Results. The definitions of the categories “risk” and “uncertainty”, “risk management” are systematized, and the author’s own interpretation of the concept of “risk of critical infrastructure facilities operation” is proposed. The peculiarities of risk manifestations at critical infrastructure facilities, as well as risk management of their operation, are identified. The author notes the strengthening of coherence between international and national programs for disaster risk reduction, sustainable development and climate change. The classification of forms, as well as the list of public administration mechanisms in the field of CIF protection, are systematized and supplemented. The author proves the need to solve the problem of maintaining an acceptable level of privacy while controlling and monitoring the security of CIF. The necessity of deepening the methodological foundations for ensuring the security of CIF, in particular, the development of directions, approaches and tools for managing CIF risks, is substantiated. The significance and range of issues to be addressed in the implementation of public-private partnership projects in the field of CIF security are outlined. The activities on setting security standards as a way to improve the effectiveness of state measures to protect CIF are considered. Conclusions. The systematization of approaches and actions of public administration bodies in the system of critical infrastructure protection and risk management of the CIF allowed us to identify the following key areas: clarification of the concept of “risk of critical infrastructure facilities operation” and its regulation in legal acts; formation of an expanded classification of forms and types, mechanisms of CIF risk management; ensuring consistency between relevant international and national programs; implementation of public-private partnership projects in the field of CIF security; establishment of safety standards as a direction of increasing the effectiveness of state measures to protect CIF.