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Advances in Critical Infrastructures (CIs) have increased the society’s welfare but at the same time they have made us to be more dependent on CIs proper functioning. In light of this situation it is essential to create resilient systems in order to avoid a crisis occurrence or respond in the most rapid and effective way. Through an extensive literature review, two different perspectives regarding the resilience concept have been identified. Some authors define resilience as the capacity to respond to crises reactively, whereas some others extend this perspective by adding the proactive capacity to avoid the occurrence of a crisis. Finally, some principles to improve the resilience level of the organizations have been defined.
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Labaka, L., Hernantes, J., Laugé, A., Sarriegi, J.M. (2012). Resilience: Approach, Definition and Building Policies. In: Aschenbruck, N., Martini, P., Meier, M., Tölle, J. (eds) Future Security. Future Security 2012. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 318. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33161-9_74
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