Concepts for Enhancing Critical Infrastructure Protection Relating Y2K to Cip Research and Development

Spending by the U.S. government and industry on activities to prevent the predicted year 2000 (Y2K) crisis amounted to approximately $100 billion, and other global spending may have been even greater. Debate continues over whether this massive effort precluded catastrophic system failures or the fears were overstated to begin with. The author sheds light on this debate by addressing the following questions: What kind of event was the Y2K crisis? Was the massive and costly remediation effort justified? What lessons does the Y2K experience offer for critical infrastructure protection (CIP)? What do these lessons imply for federal CIP research priorities?Mussington, B. David is the author of 'Concepts for Enhancing Critical Infrastructure Protection Relating Y2K to Cip Research and Development' with ISBN 9780833031570 and ISBN 0833031570.