Critical Infrastructure Protection
Critical infrastructure protection (CIP) is a growing concern for infrastructure managers. Physical and cyber attacks pose serious threats to organizations that maintain public utilities, power generation, oil and gas, telecommunications, transportation, and the food supply. When these services are disrupted, it can cause serious public distress.
To mitigate the risk of these attacks, critical infrastructure managers are working to identify critical points of failure, implement systems to defend against attacks, and develop emergency response strategies.
An additional challenge to CIP is how critical infrastructure response teams can interoperate with local first responder organizations, balancing the responsibilities between private and public response teams. They must find an effective way to plan, train, and respond together.
The EM-Sim approach
CAE is working with clients to support planning, analysis, training, and operational efforts. We provide an all-agency, all-hazard approach to CIP. Our operational research specialists conduct threat-risk assessments and develop exercise scenarios around those for planning, testing, and training response strategies. In a simulation environment, CIP managers are able to visualize their systems, resources, response teams, and physical structures. Response strategies can be tested and validated through various scenario-based exercises and after-action analysis.
