Critical Infrastructure Protection relates to the strategies and activities taken to protect and secure vital assets and processes that are essential for the functioning of a society and economy. The strategic planning of critical infrastructure protection at a national level and the policies and processes deployed by corporate suppliers of critical national infrastructure aim to protect such infrastructure from acts of terrorism, sabotage and natural disaster. This timely Congress providesessential support to key public and private sector practitioners as they seek to protect the region's critical infrastructure in the interests of a stable regional and global economy.

















Post-Congress Workshop

Wednesday, 1 December 2010


Introduction to National Infrastructure Protection Planning:
Best Practices, Key Challenges, Lessons Learned

Workshop timings: Registration will start at 08.00. The workshop will start at 08.30 and finish at 13.30 with appropriate breaks for refreshments. Lunch will be served at 13.30.
 
Workshop Outline
After September 11, 2001, the United States embarked on an ambitious plan to consolidate the US Federal Government's critical infrastructure protection (CIP) activities to ensure that terrorists would never again use US critical infrastructure as a weapon. The Department of Homeland Security sought to develop a framework to facilitate the coordination of all of the Federal government's CIP efforts. As 85% of infrastructure in the US is owned or operated by the private sector, such a framework necessarily contemplates a public-private partnership model to encourage and enhance efforts to mitigate risk to US infrastructure. The resulting framework, the National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP), was released in 2006 (updated in 2009). This workshop will discuss best practices and lessons learned from the US National Infrastructure Protection Planning process, and will guide national and local Critical Infrastructure Protection planning representatives on how to similarly establish and implement successful CIP frameworks.

Key Topics

  • Putting the US National Infrastructure Protection Plan into context for international application, a step-by-step overview
  • Identifying and classifying critical infrastructure sectors of interest, a risk-based approach
  • The importance of building Public-Private Partnerships
Benefits
Attendees will come away from the workshop with an evolved understanding of the steps and tools necessary to develop national, state/provincial, and/or local coordinated critical infrastructure protection planning frameworks.

Workshop leader:
Chris Krebs, Former Policy Advisor to the Assistant Secretary Infrastructure Protection, Department of Security and Vice President, Dutko Global Risk Management, USA

 

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