Critical Infrastructure: Updating The 2013 NIPP And Other Risk Mitigation Actions

Protecting critical infrastructure is paramount to today's digital age. Critical infrastructure includes physical and virtual systems essential for the functioning of our society, economy, and national security. Such a definition may include power grids, communication networks, and financial institutions, among other networks that heavily rely on interconnected computer systems. These systems are also considered critical infrastructure, as they are used to protect critical cybersecurity infrastructure.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has identified16 critical infrastructure sectorswhose assets are so "vital to the United States that their incapacitation or destruction would have a debilitating effect on security, national economic security, national public health or safety, or any combination thereof." Cybersecurity is embedded in each of these. The National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP) details how each sector must develop a