The nation’s health, wealth, security,
and quality of life rely on the production and distribution of certain
goods and services (safe drinking water, electricity, fuels, etc.). The
array of physical assets, processes, information, and people that
facilitate this production and distribution have been referred to as
the nation’s critical infrastructure. Following the terrorist attacks of
September 11, 2001, government at all levels has focused greater
attention on the vulnerability of critical infrastructure and on how
best to enhance its protection.
The federal government has taken on the
responsibility of working with the owners and operators of critical
infrastructure (both public and private) to determine which of their
assets are the most critical to the nation as whole, to assess the
vulnerability of these assets to a variety of threats, to determine the
risks involved, to develop options for reducing those risks, and to
implement the most cost-effective risk-reduction options. Although there
is a range of regulatory intervention already in place across the
various critical infrastructure sectors, national policy states that the
federal government should strive to encourage owners and operators to
take proactive, market-based actions to protect these assets. However,
the federal government is willing to intervene (through regulation or
incentives) in those cases where owners and operators are unwilling or
unable to adequately protect nationally critical assets. The federal
government has also assumed the responsibility of assisting state and
local governments and some private sector entities protect assets that
are important locally, but which may not be critical to the nation as a
whole. While many federal agencies play a role, Homeland Security
Presidential Directive (HSPD) No. 7 makes the Department of Homeland
Security (DHS) the lead agency in coordinating this national effort.
Date of Report: January 17, 2013
Number of Pages: 214
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