¶ … Infrastructure Vulnerability and Protection The efficient operation of any city in the world depends on the level of the infrastructure that is available, indeed even the far removed areas from the city can only be categorized as accessible and habitable with the introduction of the necessary infrastructure. Infrastructure has been the yardstick for measuring the level of civilization in any part of the world, with regions that lack basic infrastructure like roads, electricity, communication, means of transport among others being categorized as uncivilized or yet to be civilized. The economic categorization also hinges its definition on the amount and quality of infrastructure that a region or a country has, with those with most sophisticated infrastructure considered to be developed and those with the least considered as developing or underdeveloped regions/nations (O'Conor T., 2014).

Apparently, the infrastructures, in most cases are interconnected for them to function significantly well. The infrastructure in the contemporary society support each other to achieve the bigger picture of ensuring service is delivered to the residents. Electricity connection and distribution infrastructure for instance, is connected to the communication system in the U.S. In that without the power, most communication systems will be left useless within a matter of hours....

For security. If the electricity network is interrupted, resulting to tampering with the communication system, the security infrastructure will as well be down in a short while since the information and signals transmitted by these security platforms will not be received and read at the necessary centers due to breakdown in communication systems. This brings in the third connection which is air transport, an important facet of transport in the modern U.S.. With the breakdown of communication, such that signals cannot be received at the control rooms, the air transport will also be grounded since there would be no way of communicating to the airplane the right information on takeoffs and landing and the same will happen to electric trains. This interconnection goes on a long way hence the need to have the increase in vulnerabilities of the critical infrastructure where there can be an attack on one significant infrastructure with the target on the related infrastructure.
Due to the sensitive nature and interconnection of the critical infrastructure as depicted here above, there in need to have strict and tight critical infrastructure protection (CIP). Each nation needs to have in place management system of the…