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What is Critical Infrastructure?

If you've never heard about critical infrastructure, and would like to learn the definitions, challenges, and issues surrounding it, this Adobe PDF file is a great place to start. This PDF document contains statistics about critical infrastructure sectors.

See also the Congressional Research Service report
Critical Infrastructure and Key Assets: Definition and Identification (October 2004; PDF).

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