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Source http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/factsh.htm
PROTECTING AMERICA'S
CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURES: PDD 63
This Presidential Directive builds
on the recommendations of the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure
Protection. In October 1997 the Commission issued its report, calling
for a national effort to assure the security of the United States' increasingly
vulnerable and interconnected infrastructures, such as telecommunications,
banking and finance, energy, transportation, and essential government
services.
Presidential Decision Directive
63 is the culmination of an intense, interagency effort to evaluate
those recommendations and produce a workable and innovative framework
for critical infrastructure protection. The President's policy:
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Sets
a goal of a reliable, interconnected, and secure information system
infrastructure by the year 2003, and significantly increased security
for government systems by the year 2000, by:
Immediately establishing a national center to warn of and respond
to attacks.
Building the capability to protect critical infrastructures from
intentional acts by 2003. |
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Addresses
the cyber and physical infrastructure vulnerabilities of the Federal
government by requiring each department and agency to work to reduce
its exposure to new threats; |
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Requires
the Federal government to serve as a model to the rest of the country
for how infrastructure protection is to be attained; |
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Seeks
the voluntary participation of private industry to meet common goals
for protecting our critical systems through public-private partnerships;
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Protects
privacy rights and seeks to utilize market forces. It is meant to
strengthen and protect the nation's economic power, not to stifle
it. |
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Seeks
full participation and input from the Congress. |
PDD-63 sets up a new structure
to deal with this important challenge:
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a
National Coordinator whose scope will include not only
critical infrastructure but also foreign terrorism and threats of
domestic mass destruction (including biological weapons) because
attacks on the US may not come labeled in neat jurisdictional boxes;
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The
National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC) at the
FBI which will fuse representatives from FBI, DOD, USSS, Energy,
Transportation, the Intelligence Community, and the private sector
in an unprecedented attempt at information sharing among agencies
in collaboration with the private sector. The NIPC will also provide
the principal means of facilitating and coordinating the Federal
Government's response to an incident, mitigating attacks, investigating
threats and monitoring reconstitution efforts; |
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An
Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ISAC) is encouraged
to be set up by the private sector, in cooperation with the federal
government; |
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A
National Infrastructure Assurance Council drawn from private
sector leaders and state/local officials to provide guidance to
the policy formulation of a National Plan; |
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The
Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office will provide support
to the National Coordinator's work with government agencies and
the private sector in developing a national plan. The office will
also help coordinate a national education and awareness program,
and legislative and public affairs. |
For more detailed information
on this Presidential Decision Directive, view the White
Paper on Critical Infrastructure Protection.
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