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To begin this assignment, click the link below to access the webpage:
U.S. Department of Homeland Security. (n.d.). Critical infrastructure sectors. Retrieved from https://www.dhs.gov/critical-infrastructure-sectors
Choose the critical infrastructure sector that you identified in your Unit IV Project Topic assignment. Once you click on the sector, click on the tab for the Sector-Overview, and then open the tab for the Sector-Specific Plan. This will serve as a relevant resource for this assignment (though you are encouraged to use any resources from this course).
For this assignment, you will develop a critical infrastructure sector profile by incorporating (in your own words) the information from this sector-specific plan as well as information from your Unit IV Project Topic assignment. Your profile should include the following components:
- Provide a brief profile of the sector identified.
- Describe the purpose and importance of your chosen sector.
- Are your sector’s assets important or relevant to the government, private industry, or a mixture of the two?
- Does your sector have any subsectors?
- Define the criticality of the sector.
- Why is this sector a critical asset?
- What are the ramifications/consequences of its disruption?
- Identify the sector risks.
- What risks threaten disruption of this sector?
- Are there any interdependent risks (downstream risks or cascading failures)?
- Identify partnerships.
- Determine the governmental and non-governmental homeland security programs that are specific to your chosen sector and how they assess, plan for, and mitigate threats.
- Evaluate the governmental and non-governmental homeland security programs for disaster mitigation and management as they relate to this sector.
- Identify the specific roles and responsibilities of the local, regional, and national critical infrastructure partners within this sector.
- Relate the importance and roles of operational security (OPSEC) and site security to terrorism prevention, preparedness, and mitigation as they relate to this sector.
- Define OPSEC.
- Describe the countermeasures to OPSEC issues in your chosen sector.
The completed assignment must be a minimum of three pages in length, not including the title page and reference page. All sources used must be referenced using APA formatting; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.
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