Infrastructure (glossary)

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the assets, systems, and networks, whether physical or virtual, whose incapacitation or destruction would have a debilitating effect on security, national economic security, public health or safety, or any combination thereof. -- adapted from Department of Homeland Security (DHS, 2010, p. 46)

Source(s)

DHS 2010. DHS [Department of Homeland Security] Risk Lexicon.

Discussion

This term is discussed in a resilience context. That is also the context in which the DHS Risk Lexicon was written.