National Infrastructure Protection Plan
Another part of the National Preparedness System is the National Infrastructure Protection Plan (DHS, 2013a) which, in its current form, was a direct response to Presidential Policy Directive 21 (PPD- 21), Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience. This represents a move to integrate cyber and physical security and the resilience of critical infrastructure assets, systems, and networks, and is a good reminder to regional development organizations to include such considerations in local and regional resilience planning. The NIPP uses some important concepts:
Cited Source:
DHS - U.S. Department of Homeland Security. (2013a). National Infrastructure Protection Plan: Partnering for Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience. Washington DC: DHS.
Another part of the National Preparedness System is the National Infrastructure Protection Plan (DHS, 2013a) which, in its current form, was a direct response to Presidential Policy Directive 21 (PPD- 21), Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience. This represents a move to integrate cyber and physical security and the resilience of critical infrastructure assets, systems, and networks, and is a good reminder to regional development organizations to include such considerations in local and regional resilience planning. The NIPP uses some important concepts:
- Critical infrastructure – 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.
- Security – reducing the risk to critical infrastructure by physical means or defensive cyber measures to intrusions, attacks, or the effects of natural or manmade disasters.
- Resilience – the ability to prepare for and adapt to changing conditions and withstand and recover rapidly from disruptions, [including] deliberate attacks, accidents, or naturally occurring threats or incidents.
- Risk Management – strengthening security and resilience through a process of identifying, analyzing, and communicating risk, and accepting, avoiding, transferring, or controlling it to an acceptable level at an acceptable cost (p.7).
Cited Source:
DHS - U.S. Department of Homeland Security. (2013a). National Infrastructure Protection Plan: Partnering for Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience. Washington DC: DHS.