CISA’s Infrastructure Security Division coordinates and collaborates across government and the private sector. The Division conducts and facilitates vulnerability and consequence assessments to help critical infrastructure owners and operators and State, local, tribal, and territorial partners understand and address risks to critical infrastructure. It also provides information on emerging threats and hazards so that appropriate actions can be taken, as well as tools and training to partners to help partners in government and industry manage the risks to their assets, systems, and networks.
Vision and Mission
The vision of the Infrastructure Security Division is secure and resilient critical infrastructure across the Nation achieved through sound risk management, collaboration, information sharing, innovation, effective program management, and a highly skilled workforce.
The mission is to lead the national effort to secure critical infrastructure from all hazards by managing risk and enhancing resilience through collaboration with the critical infrastructure community.
Strategic Plan
The Office of Infrastructure Protection Strategic Plan: 2012-2016 addresses the Department’s responsibilities for safeguarding critical infrastructure, both physical and cyber, by reducing risk, sharing information, enhancing resilience, and promoting preparedness for all hazards.
Infrastructure Information Collection Division
The Infrastructure Security division's Infrastructure Information Collection Division (IICD) leads the Department’s efforts to gather and manage vital information regarding the nation’s critical infrastructure. The division helps ensure needed infrastructure data is available to homeland security partners by identifying information sources and developing applications to use and analyze critical infrastructure data.
CISA Chemical Security
The CISA Chemical Security program office is responsible for implementing chemical security regulatory programs and developing voluntary chemical security resources that all facilities with hazardous chemicals can implement regardless of regulatory status.
National Infrastructure Coordinating Center
The National Infrastructure Coordinating Center is the information and coordination hub of a national network dedicated to protecting critical infrastructure essential to the Nation’s security, health and safety, and economic vitality.
Protective Security Coordination Division
The Infrastructure Security Division's Protective Security Coordination Division provides strategic coordination and field operations support to reduce risk to the nation's critical infrastructure and key resources from a terrorist attack or natural disaster.
Sector Outreach and Programs Division
In order to strengthen the capacity of the critical infrastructure stakeholders to achieve their security and resilience mission, the Sector Outreach and Programs Division (SOPD) builds stakeholder capacity and enhances critical infrastructure security and resilience through voluntary partnerships that provide key tools, resources, and partnerships.