Boffins start work on data centre to analyse UK infrastructure The UK has kicked off development of an £8m data analytics facility for national infrastructure systems like energy and water. The Data and Analytics Facility for National Infrastructure (DAFNI) will be built at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Didcot near Oxford. The boffins working on the project will build …
"I wonder if DAFNI will use Virtually Enhanced Logistical Machine Analysis in the project?"
It'll use GIGO.
The water company seem to know more or less where their underground assets are round here. Gas and electricity have been rather puzzled.
Good luck with building a reliable database on that.
Yeah, my though was also "Doesn't have a Scooby what's going on and usually gets taken hostage by the monster.."
However endless Scooby Doo jokes aside my next thought was "WTF, if you operate these sort of companies don't you know this yourselves?" Then again given how much of the UK's infrastructure (like all its water companies) is foreign owned, why should they give a s**t?
That said a shared resource of this kind could help identify inter network vulnerabilities, where a failure in one (EG small gas explosion) could have massive knock effects (severs main cables for multiple internet backbones, cuts power to pumping stations whateve).
Making this the ideal target to get into if you wanted to know exactly what sites you needed to attack in order to run the "Fire sale" scenario of Die Hard 4.00.
So I guess the first piece of infrastructure vulnerability analysis they should do is on themselves.
I guess UK readers will find out in due course if their physical and cyber security precautions are fit for purpose.
My sister joined the gas board as an engineering graduate in the late 70s. There were a bunch of retired workers who made a good living acting as consultants when work on the older gas mains was required.
I take my hat off to them. They trod a very fine line, never being able to remember enough to make a definitive map but not being so forgetful as to be dismissed when the Gas Board needed to open the main road surface.
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