Prepare a 3-4 page case study on a CIP asset of your choice. Discuss what makes it “critical,” what are the threats against it, how is it interdependent and connected to other sectors

Our nation’s financial, physical, and cyber security depends on the effective functioning of its critical infrastructures. Congress defines critical infrastructures as the:

‘‘systems and assets, whether physical or virtual, so vital to the United States that the incapacity or destruction of such systems and assets would have a debilitating impact on security, national economic security, national public health or safety, or any combination of those matters”

Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA Patriot Act) of 2001, 42 U.S.C. § 5195c(e).

For this assignment, please prepare a 3-4 page case study on a CIP asset of your choice. Discuss what makes it “critical,” what are the threats against it, how is it interdependent and connected to other sectors. Finally, what efforts are currently in place to protect this asset (both nationally and privately) and are these sufficient / do you have any recommendations for increased protection?