Protective Security Advisors

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Protective Security Advisors

• Securing the Nations critical infrastructure
  one community at a time

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Authorities

• Homeland Security Presidential Directive 7
• This directive establishes a national policy for
  Federal departments and agencies to identify and
  prioritize United States critical infrastructure
  and key resources and to protect them from
  terrorist attacks.
• Homeland Security Act of 2002
• TITLE IIINFORMATION ANALYSIS AND INFRASTRUCTURE
  PROTECTION/Subtitle ADirectorate for Information
  Analysis and Infrastructure Protection Access to
  Information
• Section 202
• (5) To develop a comprehensive national plan for
  securing the key resources and critical
  infrastructure of the United States, including
  power production, generation, and distribution
  systems, information technology and
  telecommunications systems (including
  satellites), electronic financial and property
  record storage and transmission systems,
  emergency preparedness communications systems,
  and the physical and technological assets that
  support such systems.
• (6) To recommend measures necessary to protect
  the key resources and critical infrastructure of
  the United States in coordination with other
  agencies of the Federal Government and in
  cooperation with State and local government
  agencies and authorities, the private sector, and
  other entities. HR 5005 EAS

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What do we protect and why?

• The USA PATRIOT Act defines critical
  infrastructure as those systems and assets,
  whether physical or virtual, so vital to the
  United States that the incapacity or destruction
  of such systems and assets would have a
  debilitating impact on security, national
  economic security, national public health or
  safety, or any combination of those matters.
• Our critical infrastructures are particularly
  important because of the functions or services
  they provide to our country. Our critical
  infrastructures are also particularly important
  because they are complex systems the effects of
  a terrorist attack can spread far beyond the
  direct target, and reverberate long after the
  immediate damage. (The National Strategy for
  Homeland Security)

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Communities Depend Daily on Reliable Systems
These systems are the invisible critical
infrastructure that our communities depend on
every day, for example

• Telephone systems that allow us to use
  ATMs/credit cards for our financial transactions,
  and real-time communications for business and
  personal use (cellular phones, pagers, e-mail,
  land-lines, and faxes)
• Electricity that allows us to light and heat our
  homes and businesses, and power computers and
  vital communication devices like radio and
  television
• Water systems that provide us with water for
  drinking,
• sanitary needs, irrigation, and firefighting
  capabilities

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How do we accomplish this task?

• The National Infrastructure Protection Plan
  (NIPP) provides the coordinated approach that
  will be used to establish national priorities,
  goals, and requirements for critical
  infrastructure and key resources (CI/KR)
  protection so that Federal funding and resources
  are applied in the most effective manner to
  reduce vulnerability, deter threats, and minimize
  the consequences of attacks and other incidents.
  It establishes the overarching concepts relevant
  to all CI/KR sectors identified in Homeland
  Security Presidential Directive-7 (HSPD-7), and
  addresses the physical, cyber, and human
  considerations required for effective
  implementation of comprehensive programs. The
  plan specifies the key initiatives, milestones,
  and metrics required to achieve the Nations
  CI/KR protection mission. It sets forth a
  comprehensive risk management framework and
  clearly defined roles and responsibilities for
  the Department of Homeland Security (DHS),
  Federal Sector-Specific Agencies (SSAs), and
  other Federal, State, local, tribal, and private
  sector security partners.

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Critical Infrastructure Key Resource Sectors
Critical Infrastructure Sectors

• Key Resources

• Commercial facilities
• Commercial nuclear reactors, materials, and waste
• Dams
• Government facilities

• Agriculture and food
• Banking and finance
• Chemical
• Defense industrial base
• Drinking water and wastewater treatment systems
• Emergency services
• Energy
• Information technology
• National monuments and icons Postal and shipping
• Public health and healthcare
• Telecommunications
• Transportation systems

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The Threat

• We will hit hard the American economy at its
  heart and its core.
• - Osama bin Laden
• Without doubt, terrorist groups recognize the
  economic ramifications of attacks on the Nations
  critical infrastructure and key resources.

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Dependency on our Critical Infrastructure Key
Resources

• National Security
• Economic Vitality
• Our Way of Life

• Attacks Could

• Disrupt government and private industry
  operations and impact our economy and society
• Result in large-scale human casualties, property
  destruction, and damage to national prestige and
  public confidence

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The Role of the Department of Homeland Security

• Unify a national effort to secure America
• Prevent and deter terrorist attacks
• Protect against and respond to threats and
  hazards to the Nation
• Respond to and recover from acts of terrorism,
  natural disasters, or other emergencies
• Coordinate the protection of our Nations
  critical infrastructure and key resources (CI/KR)
  across all sectors

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The Challenge to Protect Critical Infrastructure
Key Resources

• 85 of all CI/KR assets are privately-owned
• The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) must
  work with industry and state, territorial, local,
  and tribal governments to protect critical
  infrastructure and key resources
• To help communities better protect the Nations
  assets, DHS is placing Protective Security
  Advisors (PSAs) in metropolitan areas throughout
  the country

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DHS Provides Community-Based Support

• Protective Security Advisors will
• Assist with ongoing local and state critical
  infrastructure security efforts which are
  coordinated by the state Homeland Security
  Advisors
• Support the development of the national risk
  picture by identifying, assessing, monitoring,
  and minimizing risk to critical assets at the
  local level
• Upon request, facilitate and coordinate
  vulnerability assessments of local CI/KR

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Protective Security AdvisorsWill Also

• Provide reach-back capability to DHS and other
  Federal government resources
• Assist in confirmation of critical asset
  information for accurate inclusion into the
  National Asset Database
• Serve as advisors regarding local infrastructure
  during activation of the National Response Plan
• Provide local context and expertise to DHS to
  ensure that community resources are used
  effectively
• Facilitate the flow of programmatic information
  between all parties

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Value of the Program to You
Protective Security Advisors will

• Support comprehensive risk analyses of local
  CI/KR
• Assist in the review and analysis of
  physical/technical security of local CI/KR
• Convey local concerns and sensitivities to DHS
  and other Federal agencies
• Relay disconnects between local, regional, and
  national protection activities
• Communicate requests for Federal training and
  exercises

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How Can You Help?

• Engage with Protective Security Advisors to
  facilitate protective actions and establish
  priorities and the need for information
• Assist in efforts to identify, assess, and secure
  CI/KR in your community
• Communicate local critical infrastructure
  protection related concerns
• Business and economic ramifications of actions
• Issues unique to the community

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CONTACT US

• Paul Perez-Barroso
• San Juan District
• Office of Infrastructure Protection
• Risk Management Division
• US Department of Homeland Security
• 1510 F.D. Roosevelt Ave
• Third Floor, Suite 3B
• Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00968
• [phone]
• Paul.perez1_at_dhs.gov