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GAO Review of DHS Critical Infrastructure Plans Finds Continued Vulnerabilities

Critical Infrastructure Protection: Sector Plans and Sector Councils Continue to Evolve, GAO-07-706R, July 10, 2007.

  • “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. 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.”
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