National Risk Management: Strengthening Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience
This Act establishes a recurring national risk management cycle to protect vital government and private sector functions whose disruption would severely impact national security, economic stability, or public health and safety. It mandates the Department of Homeland Security to regularly identify and assess cyber and physical threats to critical infrastructure, ensuring greater stability and security of essential services used by citizens daily. Based on these assessments, the President must develop a National Critical Infrastructure Resilience Strategy to prevent major crises and failures.
Key points
Establishes a recurring process to identify and assess risks to critical infrastructure, considering both cyber and physical threats, likelihoods, and consequences.
Requires the President to deliver a National Critical Infrastructure Resilience Strategy to address identified risks, prioritizing areas that impact national security, economic security, or public health and safety.
Critical infrastructure owners and operators (private companies) are allowed to submit relevant threat information to the Secretary of Homeland Security for consideration.
Expired
Citizen Poll