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Protecting the critical infrastructure of the United States and ensuring its continuity are essential to the nation's security, public health and safety, economic vitality, and way of life.
What Is Critical Infrastructure?
Critical infrastructure are the assets, systems, and networks, whether physical or virtual, so vital to the United States that their incapacitation or destruction would have a debilitating effect on security, national economic security, public health or safety, or any combination thereof.
Our Shared Responsibility
Homeland Security is a shared responsibility—government cannot do it alone. Through an unprecedented public-private partnership framework, the Department works with other federal agencies, state and local agencies, local law enforcement, infrastructure owners and operators, and other partners to protect critical infrastructure and build resilient communities.
An informed and engaged public is another important line of defense. The "If You See Something, Say Something™" campaign educates the American public on the behaviors and indicators of suspicious activity and encourages all Americans to be vigilant and to report suspicious activity to local law enforcement.
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