Wk 3 Discussion

Prior to developing your initial discussion forum post review Goal 3 of the DHS Strategic Plan: FY2020-2024. Then read Chapter 8 of your primary text, the Rinaldi, Peerenboom, and Kelly (2001) article “Identifying, Understanding, and Analyzing Critical Infrastructure Interdependencies”, and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (2017) Critical Infrastructure Sectors (Links to an external site.) web page. Bullock, Haddow, and Coppola write, “Perhaps, the most appropriate characterization of the twenty-first century is that of an age when all people and, to a growing degree, all things are interconnected” (2016). It is the cyber world that really ties all of the infrastructures together, whether it is our electrical systems, financial systems, transportation systems, or health systems, they are all connected through the information infrastructure. If not the foundation of American and much of the modern world societies, it is clearly a cornerstone. Hence, the protection of the cyber world is a key importance to America and is why security of the Infrastructure and the Cyber world is a major goal of the Department of Homeland Security.