Critical Infrastructure Protection in a Post-9/11 World

This paper focuses on CIP (Critical Infrastructure Protection) and posits an approach to implementing it following the attacks of 11 September 2001 (hereafter referred to as 9/11). While the phrase 'Critical Infrastructure Protection' is used frequently in government, academia, the private sector, and within the NATO alliance, there are many different approaches and constructs to the topic. What is clear is that the terrorist attacks of 9/11 changed how organizations defined critical infrastructure and what strategies were used to protect it.