Critical Infrastructure Protection

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CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION Introduction “The American Presidential Directive PDD-63 of May 1998 set up a national program of Critical Infrastructure Protection.” (Presidential Directive PPD-63) Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) is a framework of ideas and activities to ensure the preparedness and response to serious threats, emergencies, and/or incidents that impact the critical infrastructure of the nation. CIP is very important because it links risk management and infrastructure assurance together. This combination, working together help provide the capability necessary to eliminate potential vulnerabilities and threats to the nation’s critical infrastructure. Interpret the Department of Homeland Security’s mission, operations, and responsibilities. The overall objective of the NIPP is to “build a safer, more secure, and more resilient America by preventing, deterring, neutralizing, or mitigating the effects of deliberate efforts by terrorists to destroy, incapacitate, or exploit elements of our Nation’s CIKR and to strengthen national preparedness, timely response, and rapid recovery of CIKR in the event of an attack, natural disaster, or other emergency.” (NIPP, pg. 1) The NIPP protects the nation’s assets, systems, networks, functions and other interconnecting links against potential threats. These potential threats include terrorism, natural disasters, and any other attacks or emergencies. In order to protect CIKR, activities like improvement of security protocols, hardening facilities, building resiliency and redundancy, incorporation of hazard resistance into facility designs, initiating active or passive countermeasures, installation of security systems, leveraging self-healing technologies, promotion of workforce security programs, implementation of cyber security measures, training and exercises, development of Business Continuity
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