The purpose of this management-level course is to extend the knowledge, skills, and abilities developed in the awareness level course (AWR-213) and to formulate considerations for the resilience of jurisdictional assets leveraging cross-sector partnerships. These considerations as part of a resilience action plan will enhance the whole community’s ability to manage the risk associated with critical infrastructure protection efforts.
Course Objectives
- Discuss the importance of resilience of critical infrastructure to the national homeland security strategy
- Discuss the importance of cyber security to other sectors, as discussed in Federal strategy documents
- Discuss the National Preparedness Goal as it relates to the whole community approach to resilience
- Discuss the resources, methods and benefits of private sector participation in the PS-Prep Program
- Identify jurisdictional critical infrastructure assets within all CI sectors
- Identify interdependencies between the critical infrastructure sectors
- Prioritize the critical infrastructure sector assets
- Describe the purpose and components of a resilience plan
- Prioritize assets within and across sectors
- Analyze asset and sector impact on jurisdictional resilience
- Develop next steps for asset resilience
- Develop options for sector-specific next steps for highest-priority sectors
- Develop a list of jurisdiction-level resilience actions
- Identify additional critical infrastructure national level protective efforts
- Review DHS-funded training and exercise support available to local jurisdictions
- Discuss next steps toward jurisdictional resilience
