Our national well-being relies upon secure and resilient critical infrastructure—those assets, systems and networks that underpin American society.

NIPP 2013 guides the national effort to manage risk to the Nation’s critical infrastructure. This national effort is shared by all levels of government and owners and operators of critical infrastructure. The Nation’s critical infrastructure is largely owned and operated by the private sector; however, Federal, State, Local, Tribal and Territorial governments also own and operate critical infrastructure, as do foreign entities and companies.