Developing measurement indices to enhance protection and resilience of U.S. critical infrastructure and key resources.
- Decision and Information Sciences
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is developing indices to better assist in the risk management of critical infrastructures. The first of these indices is the Protective Measures Index - a quantitative index that measures overall protection across component categories: physical security, security management, security force, information sharing, protective measures and dependencies. The Protective Measures Index, which can also be recalculated as the Vulnerability Index, is a way to compare differing protective measures (eg fence versus security training). The second of these indices is the Resilience Index, which assesses a site's resilience and consists of three primary components: robustness, resourcefulness and recovery. The third index is the Criticality Index, which assesses the importance of a facility. The Criticality Index includes economic, human, governance and mass evacuation impacts. The Protective Measures Index, Resilience Index and Criticality Index are being developed as part of the Enhanced Critical Infrastructure Protection initiative that DHS protective security advisers implement across the nation at critical facilities. This paper describes two core themes: determination of the vulnerability, resilience and criticality of a facility and comparison of the indices at different facilities.
- Research Organization:
- Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- DHS
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-06CH11357
- OSTI ID:
- 1049680
- Report Number(s):
- ANL/DIS/JA-67172
- Journal Information:
- Journal of Business Continuity and Emergency Planning, Journal Name: Journal of Business Continuity and Emergency Planning Journal Issue: 3 Vol. 4; ISSN 1749-9216
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- ENGLISH
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