The Protection of Critical Information Infrastructures

Emerging information era, different fields are confronted with extensive security challenges beyond the warfare. Vastly growth of Internet economy has created a new aspect in commerce that it has put the internet industries in a very vulnerable position. Internet economy, information security, structural dependence, and new approach toprotect them, especially information infrastructures have been appeared as well.Information warfare is a kind of the conflict that it attacks rival's beliefs or knowledge or his/her information systems directly that it can be used as a part of a bigger or more comprehensive than the cyber war or as a separate part of them. Therefore, different aspects of information warfare and its functions to counter security and critical informationinfrastructures as well as information growth should be recognized remarkably so that it can be known as protective priorities of the new era. The protection of main parts of private and government information infrastructures is impossible unless communication industry is regularized, private and government sectors cooperate with each otherand protective priorities of information infrastructures are taken into account as well.