National Infrastructure Protection Plan: Partnering to enhance protection and resiliency (2009)

Within the critical infrastructure and key resources (CIKR) protection mission area, national priorities must include preventing catastrophic loss of life and managing cascading, disruptive impacts on the U.S. and global economies across multiple threat scenarios. Achieving this goal requires a strategy that appropriately balances resiliency—a traditional American strength in adverse times—with focused, risk-informed prevention, protection, and preparedness activities so that we can manage and reduce the most serious risks that we face.