Description
You are the Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) Officer in the Plans Directorate of your County Emergency Management Agency. Your county commissioners have decided, based on continuing economic factors and other municipality-level constraints, that the county may be better suited to orchestrate and implement the National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP) better than the municipalities.
The paucity of available and full-time assets in the municipalities will simply not support successful implementation of this national-level plan. Based on your education and training, the county Emergency Management Coordinator (EMC) has selected you to oversee, orchestrate, and synchronize the efforts of all associated stakeholders in meeting the six objectives in the NIPP. The county EMC would like this product in the form of a strategy (e.g., short and broad but addressing the key tenets) and the objectives stated in the NIPP.
He does not seek the intricate details that are normally associated with a program or plan; rather, he wants an overarching document that provides the affected stakeholders (e.g., owners or operators of Critical Infrastructure and Key Responses [CIKR], associated first responders, elected officials, and other public safety officials) with a strategy for protecting the county’s CIKR. He specifically wants the strategy to include a vision, goal, what needs to be accomplished, how you intend to accomplish each objective, and the resources that you intend to use to enable this strategy.
Using what you have learned thus far from the statutory, directive, plan references, and any dialogue with your colleagues, develop a County Strategy for Critical Infrastructure Protection that includes the specified tasks directed by your County EMC. Your only constraint is that this is not intended to be the intricate detailed plan for executing each implied task associated with critical infrastructure protection. It is meant to provide a reader with a general sense of background, purpose, tasks to be performed, and a conceptual framework of how you intend to execute the county responsibilities for successful completion of all specified and implied tasks.
Assignment Details
Address the following in a strategy document of 1,250–1,500 words:
- In your county CIP strategy, include the following components:
- Vision
- Goal
- What needs to be accomplished
- How you intend to accomplish each objective
- The resources that you intend to use to enable this strategy
- How will you synchronize the efforts of all associated stakeholders in meeting the six objectives in the NIPP? Explain in detail.
- Remember to be specific and detailed in your county CIP strategy.
- This is a formal report that you are submitting for approval, so be sure to utilize the correct format.
- Be sure to reference all sources using APA style.
Explanation & Answer
Attached.
Running Head: STRATEGY FOR PROTECTING THE COUNTY’S CRITICAL
INFRASTRUCTURE
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Strategy for Protecting the County’s Critical Infrastructure
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Introduction
In protecting critical infrastructure, the duty for developing objectives lies majorly with
the government, but the execution of steps to minimize the susceptibility of privately owned
assets relies majorly on private sector action and knowledge. Even though private sectors
acknowledge their activities and the risks they entail, it’s evident that they do not have sufficient
capital to fund risk reduction. In fact, for many private firms, the cost of minimizing risks
surpasses the benefit of minimized vulnerability from natural and man-made attacks and
disasters. The country’s critical infrastructure segments offer the basis for the national
governance, security, economic strength, and the way of life. Moreover, their continued
dependability, strength, and resiliency develop a sense of confidence and establish a crucial part
of the national purpose and identity (Alcaraz, Zeadally, 2015). For this reason, therefore, it’s
essential for an effective strategy to be developed to protect the Critical Infrastructure and Key
Responses (CIKR). This paper will identify and assess this strategy.
Vision
The private segment controls over 80% of the critical infrastructure (CI) in the county.
The Department of Homeland Security defines critical infrastructure as assets and systems,
whether virtual or physical, so important to the country that the ineffectiveness or damage of
such assets would have a devastating effect on the national security, public health, the economic
condition if the country or any combination of these issues. It’s therefore crucial for the relevant
stakeholders to protect the critical infrastructure of the county. Thus, the vision of the county’s
critical infrastructure protection is to facilitate the coordination of private sector and government
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participants to enable them to manage risks and attain security and flexible results (Alcaraz,
Zeadally, 2015).
Goal
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