Critical Infrastructure Protection

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-006923",
  "term": "Critical Infrastructure Protection",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "1. Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) pertains to the proactive activities for protecting critical infrastructures: the people, physical assets, and communication/cyber systems that are indispensably necessary for national security, economic stability, and public safety. CIP methods and resources deter or mitigate attacks against critical infrastructures caused by people (e.g., terrorists, other criminals, hackers, etc.), by nature (e.g., hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, etc.), and by HazMat accidents involving nuclear, radiological, biological, or chemical substances (i.e., all hazards). Plainly stated, CIP is about protecting those invaluable assets that make life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness a national reality.\n\n2. (Protection of) 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. Specifically, it refers to the critical infrastructure sectors and key resources identified in Homeland Security Presidential Directive 7 (HSPD-7). As defined by HSPD-7, critical infrastructure includes the following sectors and key resources: agriculture and food; public health and health care; drinking water and water treatment systems; energy (including the production, refining, storage, and distribution of oil and gas, and electric power except for nuclear facilities); banking and finance; national monuments and icons; defense industrial base; information technology; telecommunications; chemical; transportation systems (including mass transit, aviation, maritime, ground/surface, and rail and pipeline systems); emergency services; postal and shipping; dams; government facilities; commercial facilities; and nuclear reactors, material, and waste. Critical infrastructure in this Plan is used to refer to the 17 critical infrastructure and key resources included in the National Infrastructure Protection Plan.\n\n3. (Protection of) 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.",
  "references": [
    "Taxonomy",
    "Adapted from CDC Nat ional Strategy for Pandemic Influenza Implementation: Glossary at http://www.flu.gov/planning.../federal/pandemic-influenza-implementation.pdf",
    "Adapted from FEMA Improvement Plan Glossary at http://emilms.fema.gov/IS200b/glossary.htm"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/critical-infrastructure-protection/"
}