Critical Infrastructure Systems & Protection

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Northbound Logistic Infrastructures (NLI) offers a variety of services and custom programs for both physical and virtual Infrastructures. These include secure corporate and government monitoring with protection services for key assets applying to 9 of the 16 National Infrastructure Protection Plans (NIPP).  NIPP is defined as critical infrastructure sectors in the US. Presidential Policy Directive 21 (PPD-21), issued in February, 2013 entitled Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience which is a mandated update to the NIPP from 2009.

NLI’s revision of the plan established the following 9 critical infrastructure sectors:

  1. Nuclear Reactors, Material and Waste
  2. Defense Industrial Base – Department of Defense
  3. Communications
  4. Emergency Services Sector
  5. Transportation Systems Sector
  6. Energy Sector
  7. Critical Manufacturing
  8. Private Industrial Base – Commerce
  9. Chemicals
Twenty years ago infrastructure was defined primarily with respect to the adequacy of the nation’s public works. In the mid-1990’s, however, the growing threat of international terrorism led policy makers to reconsider the definition of infrastructure in the context of homeland security. The notion that our nation’s critical infrastructures are highly interconnected and mutually dependent in complex way; physically and through a host of information and communications technologies (so-called “cyber-based systems”), is more than an abstract theoretical concept. As shown through the 1998 failure of the Galaxy 4 telecommunications satellite during the prolonged power crisis in California and New York, and other recent infrastructure disruptions.  What happens to one infrastructure can directly and indirectly affect other infrastructures, impact large geographic regions and send ripples throughout the national and global economy. 

The Patriot Act of 2001 defined critical infrastructure as those “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.”

Potential causes of Infrastructure failure

Corporate Sabotage

Information Warfare

Nature Disaster

Terrorism

Our Joint Restoration Strategies 

We have developed conceptual and operational frameworks for addressing infrastructure interdependencies that will serve as the basis for a further understanding in this important area. We use these different frameworks to explore the challenges and complexities of interdependency. We set the stage for this discussion by explicitly defining the terms infrastructure, infrastructure dependencies, and infrastructure inter-dependencies by introducing the fundamental concept of infrastructures as complex adaptive systems.

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