Critical Infrastructure

There are sixteen segments that make up the critical infrastructure of United States. Physical infrastructure has always been vulnerable to attacks, but within the last ten years our cyber-physical infrastructure has become increasingly more and more at risk with the rise in terrorism and increased integration of technology in all areas of our infrastructure. It is important for our government to implement risk based analysis, management and policies to protect our infrastructure from vulnerabilities. In order to protect the nations critical infrastructure, the critical protection plan is a nations call to action that focuses on the achievement of security and the resilience of critical infrastructure. Essentially, the focus is to elevate homeland security in regards to critical infrastructure, align the national preparedness system and critical infrastructure risk framework, integrate cyber and physical security risk management and also affirm the international collaboration requirement for success. The national plan also …show more content…
Risk should first be identified and managed, the understanding and identifying of the risk is essential to enhancing the security and resilience, then gaining knowledge of the infrastructure risks and interdependencies and sharing of information throughout the community. It is important that in the plan there is also partnership among the communities in order to gain perspective and a comparative advantage. Regional, state, local tribal and territorial partnerships are also essential to finding vulnerabilities and taking action to improve effectiveness. It is important to realize that the United States has a lot of cross border trade and agreements and therefore infrastructure is vulnerable to our international connections and security should be at the utmost importance when building networks and