National Information Infrastructure

The Department of Homeland Security supplies a national protection plan concerning critical infrastructure security. This plan targets a wide audience, including public and private critical infrastructure owners and administrators. Managing risks through identifying, deterring, and disrupting threats to critical infrastructure is the direct focus of this plan. The ability of an organization to reduce the impact of a threat that has occurred and reducing the impact of one that may occur is essential

Sector"). The Food and Agricultural Sector (FA) is something like 20% of the entire national economy activity (DHS, "Food and Agriculture Sector"). The sector is organized in a complicated structure where the manufacture, the process, and the distribution organization does not only provide within the US territory but does also globally ("Food and Agriculture Sector-Specific Plan An Annex to the National Infrastructure Protection Plan", 2010 10). While the US farms manufacture together about $181 billion

Establishing National Cyber Situational Awareness through Incident Information Clustering is a way to establish many ways for communication to be more modern and save in different types of security agencies. There have been many increases in incidents due to threats in this society that have made communication networks not secured in the world. In this society, a better way to make communication more efficient and save is by been able to share private information and been able to leave it confidential

Assignment 2: Critical Infrastructure Protection Eustace LangleyCIS 502 May-23-2013 Facilitator: Dr. Gideon U. Nwatu Strayer University Critical Infrastructure Protection Introduction The Presidential Policy Directive (PPD) on Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience advances a national unity of effort to strengthen and maintain secure, functioning, and resilient critical infrastructure (The White House Office of the Press Secretary, February 2013). It is imperative for every nation

The essential operations of information systems sustained by of critical infrastructure rely on the explicit functionality of software applications supporting complex, interdependent, information systems. The software application provides the virtual framework for information systems to operate efficiently in a critical infrastructure. Information systems consistently communicate with supplementary information systems positioned throughout the network to support the infrastructure’s essential operations

fall under DHS and DoD their main goal and purpose is to defend America and its citizens. Homeland Defense highest priority for DoD is the defense of the homeland against external threats and foreign aggression. Homeland defense also plays role in national defense. The DoD is responsible for deterring attacks against the U.S., its territories, and possessions (Goss, T. (2006). There are three key concepts which form the foundation of Homeland Security which are: security, resilience, customs and exchange

Introduction The state has the mandate of safeguarding citizens of hit places from suffering the disproportionate impact of natural disasters. The hurricane that hit Jacksonville town in Florida crippled the city’s infrastructure. The destroyed power and telephone lines stopped all the communication and transportation systems in the city. The copper wires were left hanging precariously along the charred roads. Looters took the opportunity to steal the expensive copper wires and motorists drove around

The purpose of a national cybersecurity strategy: In this recent past, the e-services, new technologies, and interconnected networks have become integral part of our daily life. Society, businesses, government and national defense depend entirely on the well-functioning of information technology and information infrastructures, communication, transportation, e-commerce, emergency services and financial services depend on the integrity, availability and confidentiality of information streaming these

Physical and Infrastructure Security is essential to protecting organizational interests from both well-known and undocumented threats. Acts of nature can be a detriment to daily operations as well as the actions of humans. Mitigation of such threats should be taken into consideration and recovery planning and preparation is key. A well-developed policy that is executed and enforced within the organization can assist in this objective. The active threat environment is constantly evolving as much

United States’ national infrastructure are resources that are vital to keep commerce operating. Technology have allowed the governments and the private sector to share vital information with them. The nation well-being depend on each of the critical infrastructures, the big question is on how to maintain all of our infrastructure sectors operative without any problem. There a big wave of threats to our nation and if one of this threads go through, it can created a multidimensional problem to the