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What defines critical infrastructure and key resources? Critical Infrastructures are the assets, systems, and networks, whether physical or virtual, so vital to the United States that their incapacitation or destruction would have a debilitating effect on security, national economic security, public health or safety, or any combination thereof (Fay, 2010). Chemical, Commercial Facilities, Communications, Critical Manufacturing, Dams, Defense Industrial Base, Emergency Services, Energy, Financial Services, Food and Agriculture, Government Facilities, Healthcare, and Public Health, Information Technology, Nuclear/Materials/Waste, Transportation Systems, Water and Wastewater Systems are the 16 critical infrastructures within the United States. The Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is the lead agency tasked to protect these sectors. CISA is the national cybersecurity team designated for protecting the government networks And the National coordinator for Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience.
Specific to the threat of terrorism related to these critical assets, can you describe the possible motivations for those carrying out terrorist activities? The goal and reason for a terrorist to attack any of the 16 critical infrastructures are to cause chaos and disruption upon their enemies. Agroterrorism is terrorism that targets agricultural targets such as the Food and Agricultural sector. This type of warfare has been used in the past, poisoning the drinking water supply or food supply of your enemy. When American and allied forces overran al Qaeda sanctuaries in the caves of eastern Afghanistan in 2002, among the thousands of documents they discovered were U.S. agricultural documents and al Qaeda training manuals targeting agriculture (Olson, 2012). An attack on the Food and Agricultural sector could cause widespread panic, massive financial loss, and distrust of the government.
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