Cyberspace - Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) Group

Critical infrastructure (CI) refers to the assets, systems, services, and networks, whether physical or virtual, that are vital to a nation's economic security, economic vitality, and/or public health and safety. Protecting and ensuring the continuity of these infrastructures is essential as they become targets of cyber-attack, compromise, corporate and/or international industrial espionage, foreign intelligence services, sabotage, and/or asymmetric (cyber) warfare.

Why is Critical Infrastructure Protection Important?
Attacks on critical infrastructure could significantly disrupt or dislocate the functioning of government and business, and potentially produce effects that have impact far beyond the targeted CI sector and incident.

• Threats posed not only by cyberspace but also by direct terrorist attacks, and/or natural, manmade, or technological hazards could produce catastrophic losses in terms of property damage, destruction, and national level economic effects, potentially impacting national security
• Attacks using or leveraging components of a nation's critical infrastructure as weapons of mass destruction (such as chemical or nuclear) could have devastating physical and psychological consequences including loss of life

About The CIP Group
The CIP Group provides strategic focus and will develop a comprehensive plan to secure critical infrastructure through a unified framework that encompasses a wide range of protective security efforts in a single program.

What we do
We will work to develop transformative programs for cyberspace security to address threats that, if carried out, would result in incapacitation or destruction of critical infrastructure, and have a debilitating effect on public health and safety, and/or national and economic security.

We provide protective security leadership to businesses and organizations spanning national critical infrastructures. There are eleven national infrastructure sectors on which we focus:

1. Information & Telecommunications
2. Energy
3. Transportation
4. Government
5. Military & Defence Industrial Base
6. Critical Manufacturing
7. Banking & Financial Services
8. Water
9. Agriculture
10. Public Health
11. Emergency Services