The Ubiquitous Threat: Protecting the Nation’s Critical Infrastructure Anita Tallarico Kellogg, Senior Vice PresidentEmergency

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The Ubiquitous Threat: Protecting the Nation’s Critical Infrastructure

Author            : Anita Tallarico Kellogg

Designation    :Senior Vice President

Company        : ICF Consulting

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We are in the Third World War; the war against terrorism. And while we fight the war abroad, efforts to protect the homeland are occurring around us everyday. Billions of dollars will be spent on both homeland defense and homeland security. Terrorism presents a ubiquitous and constant threat. America’s enemies are patient. They may take years to attack us again at home and we must be equally patient in continuing to prepare, deter, prevent, and protect our people, resources, and assets from such an attack. To that end, the Federal Government has embarked on many important initiatives to protect the homeland. One such effort is to identify threats and protect the nation’s critical infrastructure and key resources (CIKR) as outlined in The National Strategy for the Physical Protection of Critical Infrastructure and Key Assets, dated February 2003, and subsequently in Homeland Security Presidential Directive (HSPD) #7, issued December 7, 2003. The HSPD identifies 17 CIKRs that are listed in the text box to the right.

This paper will provide preliminary answers to the following questions:

How will the government decide what is critical?
How will the government decide what to protect and, just as important, what not to protect?
How will the government consider interdependencies among sectors and the cascading impacts of sector failures? For example, if the electrical grid is attacked, what other infrastructures will fail?
What is the role of the private sector (which owns 85% of the infrastructure)?
What is the role of state and local governments, and our first responders?

Critical Infrastructures

Agriculture
Water
Public health
Emergency Services
Defense industrial base
Info Technology
Telecommunications
Energy
Transportation
Banking and finance
Chemical industry and hazardous materials
Monuments and Icons
Postal and shipping

Key assets

Dams
Nuclear power plants
Government facilities
Commercial key assets

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