Critical Foundations : Protecting America's Infrastructures: the Report of the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection

The Commission spent 15 months evaluating America's critical infrastructures, assessing their vulnerabilities, & deliberating assurance alternatives. The nation is so dependent on our infrastructures that we must view them through a nat. security lens -- they are essential to the nation's security, econ. health, & social well being. There is a very real & growing cyber dimension assoc. with infrastructure assurance. Contents: (I) The Case for Action: Acting Now to Protect the Future; The New Geography; New Vulnerabilities, Shared Threats, Shared Responsibility; (II) A Strategy for Action; Onward: Initial recommend. toward preparing our critical infrastructure -- & our gov't.--to deal with our nation's cultural change. Appendices: Sector Summary Reports.Marsh, Robert T. is the author of 'Critical Foundations : Protecting America's Infrastructures: the Report of the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection', published 2005 under ISBN 9780756747565 and ISBN 0756747562.