Compliance
Critical Infrastructure Facility
Vital assets whose incapacitation would severely impact national security, economy, public health, or safety.
Definition
Assets, systems, and networks, physical or virtual, so vital that their destruction or incapacitation would have a debilitating effect on security, national economic security, national public health or safety, or any combination thereof. This includes sectors like energy, water, and telecommunications.
Related Terms
critical information infrastructure
Information systems whose compromise endangers national security....
critical information infrastructure (CII)
Systems whose disruption would critically harm national functions....
CNII (Critical National Information Infrastructure)
Government-identified infrastructure essential to national continuity....
Critical Infrastructure
Assets necessary for vital societal functions....
National Critical Information Infrastructure (NCII)
Systems/assets whose disruption would have significant national impact....