CIKR Comm Services and Providers

National Communications System (NCS)
ESF-2 Winter Training Conference

“The Importance of CI/KR Communications
Services and Providers”
Peter Fitzmaurice
NPPD/Infrastructure Protection
peter.fitzmaurice@associates.dhs.gov
(202) 282-9845
7 November

Agenda: Critical Infrastructure and Key
Resources (CI/KR)
 Risk Integration and Analysis Branch overview
 National CI/KR Prioritization Program
 Tier 1/Tier 2 Program
 Examples for Tier 1/Tier 2 Program List Uses
 FY09 Program Goals

Risk Integration and Analysis Branch
 National CIKR Prioritization Program overview

― Tier 1/Tier 2 Program
― Critical Foreign Dependencies Initiative (CFDI)

 National CI/KR Risk Analysis Program
 Infrastructure Risk Analysis Partnership Program (IRAPP)

National CI/KR Prioritization Program
 HSPD-7, and the NIPP require DHS to identify the Nation’s most
critical infrastructure.
 9/11 Commission Act explicitly requires the DHS Office of
Infrastructure Protection (IP) to create annual lists of critical
infrastructure and key resources (CI/KR) capable of “national or
regional catastrophic effects”.
 The Homeland Infrastructure Threat and Risk Analysis Center
(HITRAC) executes these responsibilities through the National CI/KR
Prioritization Program: Tier 1/Tier 2 Program (Domestic qualifying
CI/KR) and the Critical Foreign Dependencies Initiative – CFDI
(International qualifying CI/KR)
 The success of the program relies upon the contributions and
cooperation of public and private sector security partners.

Tier 1/Tier 2 Program
 Intended to identify the Nation’s most critical, highly consequential
assets and systems.
 Listed assets and systems are those that, if damaged or destroyed,
could create a combination of significant casualties, major economic
loss, and/or widespread disruptions in governance and nationally
critical missions:
― Consequence-based criteria used whenever possible,
― Capacity-based criteria used in the past as an indicator of likely consequences; and
― Focused on identifying both critical assets and critical systems (including critical nodes
within those systems).

 The Tier 1 and Tier 2 Lists are the key components of the Urban Area
Security Initiative (UASI) and State Homeland Security Grant
Programs infrastructure index, as well as other key infrastructure
protection programs.

Examples of Tier 1/Tier 2 List Uses
 Used by the Department of Homeland Security to:

― Prioritize and guide DHS programs (Buffer Zone Grants, Protective Security
Advisors, etc.)
― Inform incident preparation, response, and restoration activities
― Support DHS grant determinations and
― Enhance communication and partnerships.

 Used by Federal, State and local security partners to:
― Support CI/KR prioritization needs/requirements
― Support critical infrastructure protection planning and execution
― Enhance understanding/relationships with key owners/operators and
― Strengthen working relationship with the DHS on critical infrastructure
protection matters.

Potential Use of T1/T2 List for ESF2
 By the NCS/NCC to provide insight to the assets of
national importance in pre-event analysis.
 As an intermediary to critical mission determination for the
communications infrastructure.
 Determine the nationally critical components of the local
communications infrastructure.

 By Federal, State and local security partners to:
 Prioritize assets in disaster recovery operations.
 Input for infrastructure protection planning and risk
assessments.

FY09 National Program Goals
 Continue progression toward consequence based
criteria, capturing additional granularity related to
criticality, as possible.
 Coordinate and improve the CI/KR prioritization capability
of the NIPP partner community during incidents.
 Aid State, local, and international partners with CI/KR
prioritization through the Infrastructure Risk Analysis
Partnership Program (IRAPP).

END OF BRIEF
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