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Modern life in fully developed countries relies on the coordinated functioning of several infrastructures such as Electric System, Aqueducts, Communication Assets, Fresh food distribution chains, Gas-ducts, Oil Pipelines, Transports, Financial networks, etc. Several of such infrastructures have been regarded as critical since they provide vital services to sustain the modern technological society and its development.

During the last decades, the level of awareness about the importance of protecting our Critical Infrastructures (CIs) has been steadily growing. In this respect, US has been the first country to take an official financial commitment by means of the celebrated American Presidential Directive PDD-63 of May 1998 under the Clinton administration. After ten years also the European Community made a similar commitment through the EUDIR Council Directive 2008/114/EC (dated December the 8-th, 2008), that has …