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GAO-07-706R 1 (2007-07-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptavge0001 and id is 1 raw text is: i SGAO Accountability * Integrity * Reliability United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 July 10, 2007 The Honorable Bennie G. Thompson Chairman Committee on Homeland Security House of Representatives The Honorable Sheila Jackson-Lee Chairwoman Subcommittee on Transportation Security and Infrastructure Protection Committee on Homeland Security House of Representatives Subject: Critical Infrastructure Protection: Sector Plans and Sector Councils Continue to Evolve In 2005, Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, damaging critical infrastructure, such as oil platforms, pipelines, and refineries; water mains; electric power lines; and cellular phone towers. The infrastructure damage and resulting chaos disrupted government and business functions alike, producing cascading effects far beyond the physical location of the storm. In 2004, authorities thwarted a terrorist plot to target financial institutions in New York. In 2005, suicide bombers struck London's public transportation system, disrupting the city's transportation and mobile telecommunications infrastructure. Our nation's critical infrastructures and key resources-including those cyber and physical assets essential to national security, national economic security, and national public health and safety- continue to be vulnerable to a wide variety of threats. Because the private sector owns approximately 85 percent of the nation's critical infrastructure and key resources-banking and financial institutions, telecommunications networks, and energy production and transmission facilities, among others-it is vital that the public and private sectors form effective partnerships to successfully protect these assets.' 1Critical infrastructure are systems and assets, whether physical or virtual, so vital to the United States that their incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on national security, national economic security, national public health or safety, or any combination of those matters. Key resources are publicly or privately controlled resources essential to minimal operations of the economy or government, including individual targets whose destruction would not endanger vital systems but could create a local disaster or profoundly damage the nation's morale or confidence. For purposes of this report, we will use the term critical infrastructure to also include key resources. GAO-07-706R

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