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Healthcare and Public Health Sector-Specific Plan [May 2016]"This Healthcare and Public Health (HPH) Sector-Specific Plan (SSP) is designed to guide the Sector's internal and collaborative, cross-sector efforts to enhance the security and resilience of HPH critical infrastructure to all-hazards across its physical, cyber, and human dimensions. The SSP tailors the strategic guidance provided in the National Infrastructure Protection Plan 2013 (NIPP 2013) to the unique operating conditions and risk landscape of the vast and complex HPH Sector."United States. Department of Homeland Security; United States. Department of Health and Human Services2016-05
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Water and Wastewater Systems Sector-Specific Plan 2015"Drinking water and wastewater treatment are essential to modern life and the Nation's economy. Therefore, it is critical that we enhance the security and resilience of the Nation's drinking water and wastewater infrastructures, collectively known as the 'Water and Wastewater Sector' (Sector). The purpose of this 2015 Water and Wastewater Sector-Specific Plan (Water SSP) is to guide and integrate the efforts intended to secure and strengthen the resilience of the Sector's infrastructure. This Water SSP tailors the strategic guidance provided in the 'National Infrastructure Protection Plan' (NIPP) 2013 to the unique operating conditions and risk landscape of the Sector."United States. Department of Homeland Security2015
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Transportation Systems Sector-Specific Plan 2015"The purpose of the 2015 Transportation Systems Sector-Specific Plan (TS SSP) is to guide and integrate efforts to secure and strengthen the resilience of transportation infrastructure and to describe how the Transportation Systems Sector (hereafter referred to as the Sector) contributes to the overall security and resilience of the Nation's critical infrastructure, as set forth in Presidential Policy Directive 21 (PPD-21), 'Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience'. The TS SSP tailors the strategic guidance provided in the National Infrastructure Protection Plan 2013, 'Partnering for Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience' (NIPP 2013), to the unique operating conditions and risk landscape of the Nation's varied transportation systems. The TS SSP represents a collaborative effort among Federal departments and agencies; State, local, tribal, and territorial (SLTT) governments; non-governmental organizations; and public and private critical infrastructure owners and operators to achieve shared goals and priorities to reduce critical infrastructure risks. It also reflects the maturation of the Sector partnership and the progress made by the Sector since the 2010 TS SSP to address evolving risks as well as operating and policy environments. This Plan describes an approach to manage security and resilience efforts while enhancing the efficient use of the capabilities and resources of the Sector's government and industry partners. Transportation systems encompass diverse and interconnected networks of fixed and mobile assets that provide essential services for the Nation's livelihood and economic prosperity."United States. Department of Homeland Security; United States. Department of Transportation2015
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Food and Agriculture Sector-Specific Plan 2015"Protecting the Nation's food and agricultural critical infrastructure is an important responsibility shared by Federal, State, local, tribal, and territorial governments and private sector partners. Interruption of operations within the sector could have a potentially devastating impact on the Nation's public health and economy. The security and resilience of infrastructure in the Food and Agriculture (FA) Sector requires all sector partners to undertake a number of integrated processes and procedures. As such, the FA Sector has developed a new set of sector priorities in this updated 2015 SSP [Sector-Specific Plan] that will help guide security and resilience efforts, inform partner decisions, reflect activities to enhance security and resilience, and improve risk management practices over the next four years. The achievement of the corresponding FA Sector goals will not only enhance security and resilience in the sector, but will also help measure the progress towards the NIPP [National Infrastructure Protection Plan] 2013 goals, the JNP1 [Joint National Priorities for Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience], and the National Preparedness Goal."United States. Department of Homeland Security; United States. Food and Drug Administration; United States. Department of Agriculture2015
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Energy Sector-Specific Plan 2015"The 2015 Energy Sector-Specific Plan (SSP) was developed in accordance with the 'NIPP [National Infrastructure Protection Plan] 2013: Partnering for Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience', which guides the national effort to manage risk to the Nation's critical infrastructure. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), as the Sector-Specific Agency (SSA) for the Energy Sector, led the development of the 2015 Energy SSP in close collaboration with its sector partners. A myriad of Energy Sector partners exist in both private and public sectors in the Critical Infrastructure Partnership Advisory Council (CIPAC) framework, under which the Electricity and Oil and Natural Gas Subsector Coordinating Councils (SCCs) and the Energy Government Coordinating Council (GCC) operate. Energy Sector partners have developed a valuable and increasingly trusted partnership in the past decade, which has been the cornerstone of the Nation's integrated risk management approach to critical infrastructure security and resilience. The Energy Sector is characterized by widely-diverse infrastructure components, a multifaceted operational environment, and complex ownership and regulatory structures. Further, the Energy Sector provides one of the key lifeline-functions upon which all other critical infrastructure sectors rely--the Nation's security and economy depend on it. In turn, the Energy Sector depends on many other critical infrastructure sectors, such as transportation, information technology (IT), communications, water, and financial services. In addition, the sector faces evolving threats and risks, such as natural disaster events, cyber and physical security threats, aging/failing infrastructure, and the potential shortage of a skilled workforce."United States. Department of Homeland Security2015
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Financial Services Sector-Specific Plan 2015"The security and resilience of the Financial Services Sector depends on close collaboration among a broad set of partners, including Financial Services Sector companies; sector trade associations; Federal government agencies; financial regulators; State, local, tribal, and territorial governments; and other government and private sector partners in the U.S. and around the world. These partners seek to reduce the physical and cybersecurity risks that take many forms but, particularly in the case of cybersecurity threats, are becoming increasingly pressing. Responding to a broad set of risks in a complex environment requires a shared and flexible strategic framework to inform decision-making among individual stakeholders, each of whom maintains their own distinct approach to risk management. The 2015 SSP provides an overview of the sector and the risk it faces, establishes a strategic framework that serves as a guide for prioritizing the sector's day-to-day work, and describes the key mechanisms through which the strategic framework is implemented and assessed."United States. Department of Homeland Security; United States. Department of the Treasury2015
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Education Facilities Sector-Specific Plan: An Annex to the Government Facilities Sector-Specific Plan"Critical infrastructure and key resources (CIKR) provide the essential services that support basic elements of American society. Compromise of these CIKR could disrupt key government and industry activities, facilities, and systems, producing cascading effects throughout the Nation's economy and society and profoundly affecting our national prestige and morale. Protection of U.S. CIKR is therefore vital to our Nation's security, economic vitality, and way of life. Because the functional categories of schools and higher education are aligned with the Government Facilities Sector (GFS), the Education Facilities Subsector (EFS) is a GFS subsector under the National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP) for coordinating infrastructure protection efforts for schools and higher education institutions. The U.S. Department of Education's (ED) Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools (OSDFS) serves as the Sector-Specific Agency (SSA) for the subsector under the NIPP, as designated by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). ED's mission is to promote student achievement and preparation for global competitiveness by fostering educational excellence and ensuring equal access. Within ED, OSDFS administers, coordinates, and recommends policy for improving quality and excellence of programs and activities involving student health and safety, including guidance and information on emergency management efforts for schools and higher education institutions. OSDFS supports ED's mission by building school emergency management capacity and resilience at the Federal, State, and local levels. As the EFS SSA, OSDFS provides guidance and information to the education community in relation to infrastructure and security programs and resources for subsector CIKR protection."United States. Department of Defense; United States. Department of Education2010
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Transportation Sector-Specific Plan: Mass Transit Modal Annex"The mass transit and passenger rail industry and their Federal, State and local partners face many challenges in their efforts to provide a secure and protected public transportation environment. The systems are open, serving millions of passengers every day. The networks cover wide geographical areas providing numerous points of access, transfer, connection to other means of transportation, and egress, leading to high passenger turnover difficult to monitor effectively. As the public and private partners move forward with implementing the plan to secure the mass transit and passenger rail systems, new challenges arise. In this context, public and industry partners seek to provide a secure environment for passengers and employees through training, public outreach, procedures and hardening of physical assets and expanding visible/covert, random, and unpredictable security measures. This plan for mass transit and passenger rail security sets out to achieve the objectives and priorities enumerated in the Transportation Systems Sector Security Plan (TSSP), the Presidential Executive Order 13416, "Strengthening Surface Transportation Security," as well as other national and regional strategies to mitigate transportation risk. Within the GCC/SCC framework, mass transit and passenger rail governmental and industry partners have devised, and are implementing, a plan consistent with the approach set out in the NIPP. This plan aims to enhance security through collaborative efforts nation-wide and in regional areas throughout the Nation to employ the full spectrum of security resources in the most effective manner possible. Essential components of the plan include maximizing the power of information, using risk-based principles in conducting assessments of assets and systems, and applying the results to ensure domain awareness and to identify and implement security programs and concrete and specific criteria to measure the effectiveness of these programs. These efforts are advanced in the context of an ever-changing threat environment and encompass proactive measures to reduce vulnerabilities in general and improve overall preparedness to meet a range of contingencies, including response to specific threat intelligence and security incidents."United States. Department of Homeland Security2007-06
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Banking and Finance: Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources Sector-Specific Plan as input to the National Infrastructure Protection Plan"The Banking and Finance Sector accounts for more than 8 percent of the U.S. annual gross domestic product and is the backbone for the world economy. As direct attacks and public statements by terrorist organizations demonstrate, the sector is a high-value and symbolic target. Additionally, large-scale power outages, recent natural disasters, and a possible flu pandemic demonstrate the wide range of potential threats facing the sector. With this understanding, financial regulators and private sector owners and operators work collaboratively to maintain a high degree of resilience in the face of a myriad of potential disasters, be they intentional or unintentional, manmade or natural. This collaboration has led to a comprehensive framework for a strong public-private sector partnership. This partnership has developed several programs that currently provide protection and crisis management, which are continuously improving. Working through this public-private partnership, the Department of the Treasury, as the Sector-Specific Agency (SSA) for the Banking and Finance Sector, has developed this Sector-Specific Plan (SSP) in close collaboration with the Financial and Banking Information Infrastructure Committee (FBIIC) and the Financial Services Sector Coordinating Council for Critical Infrastructure Protection and Homeland Security (FSSCC). This SSP, along with the SSPs from the 16 other critical infrastructures identified in Homeland Security Presidential Directive 7 (HSPD-7), are part of the overall National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP). This SSP contains the Banking and Finance Sector's strategy for working collaboratively with public and private sector partners to identify, prioritize, and coordinate the protection of critical infrastructure. This SSP also summarizes the extensive activities the sector has undertaken already to reduce vulnerabilities and share information."United States. Department of Homeland Security2007-05
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Defense Industrial Base: Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources Sector-Specific Plan as input to the National Infrastructure Protection Plan"This Defense Industrial Base (DIB) Sector-Specific Plan (SSP), developed in collaboration with industry and government security partners, provides sector-level critical infrastructure and key resources (CI/KR) protection guidance. The DIB SSP outlines the Department of Defense (DoD) approach to executing Sector-Specific Agency (SSA) responsibilities assigned by Homeland Security Presidential Directive 7 (HSPD-7), Critical Infrastructure Identification, Prioritization, and Protection, December 17, 2003, and follows the 2006 CI/KR Protection SSP Guidance established by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). It complements other DoD critical infrastructure policy. This section describes the DIB Sector and the taxonomy used to classify the DIB products and services. It identifies security partners in government and the private sector, and discusses their roles and responsibilities. The section includes the DIB Sector's goals and desired long-term security posture and provides a value proposition for security partners. This section discusses the information parameters, requirements, and methodologies that DoD and the DIB owners/operators use to identify their assets, systems, networks, and critical functionality. The section focuses on the process to identify those assets, systems, networks, and functions that, if damaged, would result in unacceptable consequences to the DoD mission, national economic security, public health and safety, or public confidence."United States. Department of Homeland Security2007-05
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Transportation Sector-Specific Plan: Aviation Model Annex"The comprehensive increase in measures to enhance aviation security following September 11, 2001, led to significant improvements in existing security processes, operations, and technologies in each area of the aviation transportation system. These efforts led to the current security posture of a multilayered, scalable, and flexible aviation security system that is responsive to varying threat levels as well as to the entire range of identified threats. This has effectively reduced vulnerabilities within the aviation transportation system. However, the ever-changing aviation threat environment continues to challenge the Federal Government and private industry to implement additional effective and efficient security measures. As directed by the National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP), the Transportation Sector- Specific Plan (TSSP) represents the combined planning contributions of the sector's security partners to develop a system wide approach to reducing the security risks within and across the transportation modes. The aviation mode's security partners include the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Transportation Security Administration (TSA), the Department of Transportation's (DOT) Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), airlines, the Department of Defense (DoD) airports, flight crews, air cargo industry members, State and local law enforcement, and passengers."United States. Department of Homeland Security2007-05
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Transportation Sector-Specific Plan: Highway Infrastructure and Motor Carrier Modal Annex"The Highway Infrastructure and Motor Carrier Modal Annex to the Transportation Sector Specific Plan (TSSP) describes how transportation sector goals and objectives will be achieved to protect the highway transportation system. These assets include, but are not limited to, signature bridges, major tunnels, operations and management centers, trucks carrying hazardous materials (HAZMAT), other commercial freight vehicles, Motorcoaches, school buses, and key intermodal freight transfer facilities. All of these components help create what is referred to as the Highway Transportation System. While the in-vehicle and highway facilities infrastructure optimizing the movement of people, services, and cargo through the Highway Transportation System are robust, some are essential in facilitating Federal and State services to maintain the health of the public, economic vitality, telecommunications, electricity, and other essential services. Even temporary debilitation of a bridge or tunnel could result in regional shutdowns, diversions, or costly repairs with potentially severe results. Security of the highway transportation system is a shared responsibility among Federal, state, and local governments and private stakeholders. Measures to secure the assets of the Highway Transportation System must be implemented in a way that balances cost, efficiency, and preservation of commerce in this Nation. The Highway Infrastructure and Motor Carrier Annex will require periodic updates to reflect current conditions, enhanced strategies, new programs, and Government Coordinating Council (GCC)/Sector Coordinating Council (SCC) scope of planning for the following year. Federal, State, local and tribal government agencies, along with private stakeholders, will lead the national effort to maintain the capability to move freely and facilitate interstate commerce in all conditions. Vehicles that use the highways are potential targets and weapons that terrorists or criminals could use to attack critical infrastructure or other assets."United States. Department of Homeland Security2007-05
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Transportation Sector-Specific Plan: Maritime Modal Annex"Salt water covers more than two-thirds of the earth's surface. These waters comprise an immense maritime domain, a continuous body of water that is the earth's greatest defining geographic feature. Ships that ply the maritime domain are the primary mode of transportation for world trade, carrying more than 80 percent of the world's trade by volume. United States maritime trade is integral to the global economy, representing more than 20 percent of global maritime trade. Through the Maritime Transportation System (MTS), the maritime mode is the primary transportation mode providing connectivity between the U.S. and global economies; 99 percent of overseas trade by volume enters or leaves the U.S. by ship. The MTS enables the U.S. to project military presence across the globe, creates jobs that support local economies, and provides a source of recreation for all Americans. The Nation's economic and military security are fundamentally linked to the health and functionality of the MTS. The security of the MTS is paramount to protecting the Nation and its economy, but it presents daunting and unique challenges to managers of the Maritime Mode. Security of the MTS is intrinsically linked to the security of the maritime domain which contains critical infrastructure and key resources (CI/KR) from many of the other critical infrastructure sectors and Transportation Sector modes. Providing for the security of the MTS depends upon understanding the diverse array of activities in the maritime domain through the transparency of all sector and transportation modal infrastructure and security activities."United States. Department of Homeland Security2007-05
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Transportation Sector-Specific Plan: Pipeline Modal Annex"Each day, thousands of businesses and millions of people rely on the safe, secure, and efficient movement of commodities through the transportation system. Manmade or natural disruptions to this critical system could result in significant harm to the social and economic well-being of the country. The Nation's pipeline system is a mode of transportation with unique infrastructure security characteristics and requirements. As required by Executive Order 13416, the Pipeline Modal Annex implements the Transportation Sector Specific Plan (TSSP) and was developed to ensure the security and resiliency of the pipeline sector. The vision of this plan is to ensure that the pipeline sector is secure, resilient, and able to quickly detect physical and cyber intrusion or attack, mitigate the adverse consequences of an incident, and quickly restore pipeline service. The core of the plan is a pipeline system relative risk assessment and prioritization methodology. This methodology provides a logical prioritization process to systematically list, analyze and sort pipeline systems and critical pipeline components within those pipeline systems. By prioritization, security resources can be effectively used to manage risk mitigation in order to protect critical pipelines from terrorist threats. The methodology is based on the Transportation Sector Systems-Based Risk Management (SBRM) methodology, which is in turn based on the Risk Management Framework presented in the NIPP."United States. Department of Homeland Security2007-05
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Transportation Sector-Specific Plan: Freight Rail Modal Annex"The fundamental challenge to securing the freight rail network is to protect against a constantly changing, unpredictable threat environment without impeding the continuous movement and free flow of commerce. While there is no specific threat or intelligence points to freight rail transportation, the potential exists for using the freight rail system as a target for terrorism or as a delivery system for a weapon of mass effect. The efficient operation of our critical interstate freight rail network requires a uniform nationwide approach to railroad security. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will continue to work with its private sector, and Federal, State, and local partners to achieve the transportation sector goals outlined in this document. The freight rail mode will continue to apply the National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP) risk management framework for developing programs and initiatives to enhance the protection of Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources (CI/KR). As outlined in chapter 1 of the Transportation Sector-Specific Plan (TSSP), the transportation sector identified three goals to help achieve the sector vision of a "secure, resilient and efficient transportation network." The freight rail mode will focus on these goals when identifying key assets and will evaluate consequence, vulnerability, and threat information to adequately assess risks facing the system. Initial security gaps have been identified, and security programs have been developed and implemented to mitigate these risks. The government continuously evaluates security gaps in freight rail, as in all modes. Mitigation strategies are updated as gaps are identified."United States. Department of Homeland Security2007-05
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Water: Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources Sector-Specific Plan as input to the National Infrastructure Protection Plan"There are approximately 160,000 public drinking water utilities and more than 16,000 wastewater utilities in the United States. About 84 percent of the U.S. population receives its potable water from these drinking water utilities and more than 75 percent has its sanitary sewage treated by these wastewater utilities. The drinking water and wastewater sector (Water Sector) is vulnerable to a variety of attacks, including contamination with deadly agents and physical and cyber attacks. If these attacks were to occur, the result could be large numbers of illnesses or casualties or denial of service that would also affect public health and economic vitality. Critical services such as firefighting and health care (hospitals), and other dependent and interdependent sectors such as energy, transportation, and food and agriculture, would suffer negative impacts from a denial of Water Sector service. In collaboration with the entire sector, a broad-based strategy to address security needs is being implemented. This work includes providing support to utilities by preparing vulnerability assessment and emergency response tools, providing technical and financial assistance, and exchanging information. Each section of the Water Sector-Specific Plan (SSP), as defined by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in its 2006 Sector-Specific Plan Guidance, is described below. This section of the SSP provides an overview of the Water Sector. Each drinking water or wastewater utility is considered an asset that comprises many components. The discussion includes an explanation of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) relationships, as the Sector-Specific Agency (SSA), with the private sector, State and local agencies, other Federal departments and agencies, and the public; a description of the relevant Water Sector authorities; a summary of its vision and goals; and explanation of its value proposition."United States. Department of Homeland Security2007-05
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Transportation Systems: Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources Sector-Specific Plan as input to the National Infrastructure Protection Plan"The Transportation Systems Sector - a sector that comprises all modes of transportation (Aviation, Maritime, Mass Transit, Highway, Freight Rail, and Pipeline) - is a vast, open, interdependent networked system that moves millions of passengers and millions of tons of goods. The transportation network is critical to the Nation's way of life and economic vitality. Ensuring its security is the mission charged to all sector partners, including government (Federal, State, regional, local, and tribal) and private industry stakeholders. Every day, the transportation network connects cities, manufacturers, and retailers, moving large volumes of goods and individuals through a complex network of approximately 4 million miles of roads and highways, more than 100,000 miles of rail, 600,000 bridges, more than 300 tunnels and numerous sea ports, 2 million miles of pipeline, 500,000 train stations, and 500 public-use airports. The sector's security risks are evident by attacks either using or against the global transportation network, including not only the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, but also more recent attacks on transportation targets such as the 2005 London bombings, the coordinated attack on four commuter trains in Madrid in 2004, and the 2006 plot uncovered in the United Kingdom targeting airlines bound for the United States. These recent attacks are a sobering reminder that the transportation system remains an attractive target for terrorists post-September 11. Hurricane Katrina and other disasters (natural and industrial) also highlight the risk to the sector that is not directly related to terrorism. Taken together, the risk from terrorism and other hazards demands a coordinated approach involving all sector stakeholders."United States. Department of Homeland Security2007-05
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