Department of Homeland Security

Department of Homeland Security. National Infrastructure Protection Plan: Partnering to enhance protection and resiliency. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 2009. http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/NIPP_Plan.pdf (accessed 9 April 2012).

The goal of the National Infrastructure Protection Plan is to “build a safer, more secure, and more resilient America by preventing, deterring, neutralizing, or mitigating the effects of deliberate efforts by terrorists to destroy, incapacitate, or exploit elements of our Nation’s critical infrastructure and key resources (CIKR) and to strengthen national preparedness, timely response, and rapid recovery of CIKR in the event of an attack, natural disaster, or other emergency.”