Critical Infrastructure
Critical Infrastructure: The physical and cyber systems and assets that are so vital to the United States that their incapacity or destruction would have a…
Definition
The physical and cyber systems and assets that are so vital to the United States that their incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on our physical or economic security or public health or safety.
Alternative Definitions
- Definition 2
System and assets, whether physical or virtual, so vital to the United States that the incapacity or destruc- tion of such systems and assets would have a debilitating impact on national security, economic security, national public health or safety, or any combination of those matters.
- Definition 3
System and assets, whether physical or virtual, so vital to the U. S. that the incapacity or destruction of such systems and assets would have a debilitating impact on security, national economic security, national public health or safety, or any combination of those matters.
- Definition 4
Systems and assets, physical and virtual, so vital to the United States that their incapac- itation or destruction would have a debilitating impact on security, national economic security, national public health or safety, or any combination of those matters.
- Definition 5
Systems and assets, whether physical or virtual, so vital to the United States that the incapacity or destruction of such systems and assets would have a debilitating impact on security, national economic security, national public health or safety, or any combination of those matters. (Source: §1016(e) of the USA Patriot Act of 2001 (42 U. S. C. §5195c(e)))
- Definition 6
Infrastructure or part of the economy whose failure or breakdown would have enormous consequences on national security or the economic and/or social welfare of a nation. In Switzerland the following infrastructure has been defined as critical: energy and water supply, emergency and rescue services, telecommunications, transport and traffic, banks and insurance, government and public administration. In the information age their smooth running is increasingly dependent upon information and communication systems. Systems such as these are referred to as critical information infrastructures.
- Definition 7
The systems and assets, whether physical or virtual, so vital to society that the incapacity or destruction of such may have a debilitating impact on the security, economy, public health or safety, environment, or any combination of these matters.
- Definition 8
System and assets, whether physical or virtual, so vital to the U. S. that the incapacity or destruction of such systems and assets would have a debilitating impact on security, national economic security, national public health or safety, or any combination of those matters. [Critical Infrastructures Protection Act of 2001, 42 U. S. C. 5195c(e)] (CNSSI-4009) (NISTIR)