CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE

Critical Infrastructure



Critical Infrastructure

Introduction

Critical Infrastructure is the basic foundation of the National economy of United States of America along with its health and security. It is because the power that has been used peoples in their homes, water that has been drunk, transportation used for mobility and the system of communication which has been used for connectivity between different peoples all belongs to the existence of such critical infrastructures. As they are of very sensitive nature so their security and pre caution measures are also needed to be taken with great importance (Homeland Security, 2013).

Discussion

Now days, the department of Homeland Security is giving great importance to high lightened the security importance of these critical infrastructures and to spread awareness in common public about the safety measures and potential hazards associated with it. This contain involvement of partnerships with state and other local, territorial and tribal governments in combination with private sector and implementing the rules for the protection of such critical infrastructures and the things associated with it.

Critical Infrastructure

Critical infrastructure is defined as an asset, network or system, either real or virtual, which is of crucial importance to the United States of America and their destruction may cause a devastating effect on the national or economic security, public safety or health or combination of them.

The following are the eighteen most critical infrastructures that are needed to be protected from any kind of threats or possibility of destruction. In this paper, only the fire hazard will be focused and the pre cautions necessary to deal with potential risks of fire have been discussed.

According to the policy Directive 21 which is also known as PPD-21 there is a policy named as Critical Infrastructure security and resilience and it aim to develop a secure, strong and resilient functioning of critical infrastructure. ...