Metra Consulting Engineers Company Attend the 3rd Conference on Protection of Sensitive Infrastructure
The 3rd Conference on Protection of Sensitive Infrastructure was held on Saturday, March 11, 2022, at the Imam Khomeini Cultural Complex of Iran University of Science and Technology. This conference was attended by Dr. Ebrahim Azizi, Vice Chairman of the National Security and Foreign Policy Commission of the Islamic Consultative Assembly, Brigadier General Gholamreza Jalali, the Head of Iran’s Civil Defense Organization, Brigadier General Ismail Ahmadi Moghadam, the President of the Supreme National Defense University, and a group of military and civil officials.
This conference was organized by the Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST), Iran’s Civil Defense Organization, Malek Ashtar University of Technology, the Iranian Association of Sensitive Infrastructure Protection, and the Basic Research Laboratory of Islamic Wisdom in the City and Society. The most important objectives of this conference were to clarify the concepts of sensitive infrastructure protection, review the theoretical foundations of sensitive infrastructure protection, assess the potential of localized approaches to sensitive infrastructure protection, and review the experiences of other countries in the field of protecting sensitive infrastructures.
The main axes of this national event on sensitive infrastructure protection included basics concepts in the field of sensitive infrastructure protection, BCP in sensitive infrastructure protection, reduction of sensitive infrastructure vulnerability, improvement of sensitive infrastructure resilience, emergency response plan (ERP) in sensitive infrastructures, risk management and assessment methods in sensitive infrastructures, governance challenges in the protection of sensitive infrastructures, protection of energy (oil, gas, and petrochemical) infrastructures, protection of water and sewage infrastructures, protection of sensitive cyber infrastructures, protection of transportation infrastructures, protection of administrative, security, defense, and governance infrastructures, protection of industrial infrastructures, protection of chemical infrastructures, protection of people against threats and crises, inherently safe design or inherent safety in infrastructures, approaches and methods, infrastructure intelligence, opportunities and threats, and passive or civil defense requirements.
In addition to attending this event, Metra Consulting Engineers Company proudly hosted a group of senior managers of Iran’s Civil Defense Organization, Prof. Roshanfekarrad, Dr. Jalili, the honorable secretary of the conference, and a group of students from IUST.