Creating the Last Mile of Confidence – Location Leverage

Earlier in my career, I spent more than a decade working in the infrastructure assurance field, more commonly referred to as critical infrastructure protection (CIP) in the years following the September 11 attacks. The goal of CIP was to identify dependencies on specific infrastructure assets, based on operational requirements. In short: "What do we need to do our job?" While the term "critical infrastructure" is often used in a generic sense, criticality is a term of art central to successful infrastructure assurance. In order to allocate resources and develop effective risk management and mitigation plans, it was necessary to identify critical assets based on operational need by answering the basic question: "What do you need to do, when do you need to do it, and where do you need to do it?"