What is Critical Infrastructures

Entities whose operations and assets, physical or virtual, are vital to a nation’s interests.

Are the national assets, systems, and networks, whether physical or virtual that form the backbone of every nation’s economy, security, and health. National assets include the electric grid, water purification systems, transportation, communication, and financial infrastructures that may be owned by the government, public, or private entities.

These are 16 sectors that comprise utilities and buildings, the massive network of highways, connecting bridges, and tunnels, railways, all necessary to continue normalcy in daily life. Relying on these vital systems is transportation, commerce, clean water, and electricity.