critical infrastructure

Critical infrastructure is a term used in the USA's National Strategy for Homeland Security, which was issued in July 2002; it is defined 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 debilitation impact on security, national economic security, national public health or safety, or any combination of those matters." The thirteen sectors of critical infrastructures and the agency liaisons identified by the National Strategy for Homeland Security are the following:

Agriculture Department of Agriculture
Food Departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services
Water Environmental Protection Agency
Public Health Department of Health and Human Services
Emergency Services Department of Homeland Security
Government Department of Homeland Security
Defense Industrial Base Department of Defense
Information and Telecommunications Department of Homeland Security
Energy Department of Energy
Transportation Department of Homeland Security
Banking and Finance Department of the Treasury
Chemical Industry and Hazardous Materials Department of Homeland Security

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