A Fuzzy WASPAS-Based Approach to Determine Critical Information Infrastructures of EU Sustainable Development

Zenonas Turskis,Nikolaj Goranin,Seilkhan Boranbayev,Assel Nurusheva

doi:10.3390/su11020424

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https://doi.org/10.3390/su11020424

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Abstract

Critical information infrastructure exists in different sectors of each country. Its loss or sustainability violation will lead to a negative impact on the supply of essential services, as well as on the social or economic well-being of the population. It also may even pose a threat to people’s health and lives. In the modern world, such infrastructure is more vulnerable and unstable than ever, due to rapid technological changes, and the emergence of a new type of threat—information threats. It is necessary to determine which infrastructure are of crucial importance when decision-makers aim to achieve the reliability of essential infrastructure. This article aims to solve the problem of ensuring the sustainable development of EU countries in terms of identifying critical information infrastructures. Integrated multi-criteria decision-making techniques based on fuzzy WASPAS and AHP methods are used to identify essential information infrastructures, which are related to a new type of potential threat to national security. The paper proposes a model for identifying critical information infrastructures, taking into account the sustainable development of countries.

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Sustainability is one of the essential criteria of the well-being of a country’s citizens [1]
Integrated multi-criteria decision-making techniques based on fuzzy WASPAS and Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) methods are used to identify essential information infrastructures, which are related to a new type of potential threat to national security
This article analyzes the problem of identifying the Critical information infrastructure (CII) of the country

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Sustainability is one of the essential criteria of the well-being of a country’s citizens [1]. The concept of sustainability is very old, and it represents the process itself [4,5,6]. Ensuring the development of vital public structures and institutions, including CII, is an essential responsibility of the government in the context of state security and sustainable development. The government must collectively prioritize, formulate clear objectives, and mitigate risks, adapting based on feedback and changing environments to achieve the stable growth of countries and core infrastructure roles. The risks are identified as “the probabilities of harm or loss”. CII sustainability is related to the need to maintain the viability of the environment and society, starting with administration, economic and financial institutions, those of social welfare and health, the military, and civil protection, and ending with supplies of food, water, and energy, transport, communications, etc

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