Topic 5 - Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP)

Critical Infrastructure Protection is a national program to protect critical infrastructures, which are those physical and cyber-based systems essential to the minimum operations of the economy and government. They include, but are not limited to, telecommunications, energy, banking and finance, transportation, water systems and emergency services, both government and private.

Many of the nation’s critical infrastructures have historically been physically and logically separate systems that had little interdependence. However, these infrastructures have become increasingly automated and interlinked, creating new vulnerabilities to equipment failures, human error, weather and other natural causes, and physical and cyber attacks. Many organizations have initiated a program to identify and correct weaknesses in its critical infrastructure.


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