Homeland Security and Emergency Management officials divide the nation’s private and public sectors into “Critical Infrastructures and Key Resources” or CIKR. When planning for the protection of those resources, the government must collaborate with the owners of those sector enterprises to plan for disasters.
- What national policy documents inform CIKR policy? Describe their purpose.
- Choose three of the 16 DHS designated sectors, and explain how each are vital to the nation’s security
- For each of these sectors you choose to evaluate, use an example of a particular industry to show how that sector is essential for the nation’s security and operation, including the reliance of other sectors upon it. Describe how other sectors may be dependent upon the three that you chose.
- If your sectors were damaged or destroyed, what would be the impacts on citizens and civil society?
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