Critical Infrastructure Protection Issues

Critical infrastructure cuts across many segments of daily life in the United States. This infrastructure supports components of our society ranging from our homes to the largest corporations, town governments to national government, and public and private institutions and facilities. The U. S. Department of Homeland Security defines “critical infrastructure” as systems and assets, whether physical or virtual, so vital to the United States that the incapacity or destruction of such systems and assets would have a debilitating impact on security, national economic security, national public health or safety, or any combination of those matters.

DHS has provided a framework to integrate current and future protection efforts into a single national protection plan. This framework divides Critical Infrastructure/Key Resources into seventeen sectors:

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