Foundations Course Downloads - Center for Infrastructure Protection & Homeland Security

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Core Syllabus

Lesson 1 - Introduction to Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience

Lesson 2 - Defining and Achieving Critical Infrastructure Resilience

Lesson 3 - Examining CISR in the Context of the 21st-Century Threat Environment

Lesson 4 - Examining CISR Authorities, Roles, and Responsibilities: Federal, SLTT, and the Private Sector

Lesson 5 - Organizing and Partnering to Share Information

Lesson 6 - Assessing Critical Infrastructure Risk in an Interdependent World

Lesson 7 - Enabling CISR, Managing Risk, and Measuring Performance: The Voluntary Approach

Lesson 8 - Enabling CISR, Managing Risk, and Measuring Performance: The Regulatory Approach

Lesson 9 - Insider Threats and Cybersecurity and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) Vulnerabilities

Lesson 10 - CISR: The International Dimension

Lesson 11 - Managing Impacts to Critical Infrastructure in an All-Hazards Environment

Lesson 12 - CISR Incident Management Exercise (Student Activity)

Lesson 13 - Understanding, Planning, and Addressing Long-Term and Enduring Risks to Critical Infrastructure and Course Wrap-up

Exercises