threat mitigation

The United States government defines the “critical infrastructure” as 16 specific sectors considered so vital to the U.S. that their incapacitation or destruction would have a debilitating effect on security, national economic security and national public health and/or safety. The “public infrastructure” is a subset of the critical infrastructure and includes roads, bridges, public transportation and airports, drinking water and wastewater treatment systems, solid waste services and facilities, and other important utilities essential to communities…