Congress defines Critical Infrastructure as “systems and assets…so vital to the United States that the incapacity or destruction of such systems and assets would have a debilitating impact on security, the national economy, public health or safety, or any combination of these matters,” according to the USA Patriot Act of 2001 (section1016, Paragraph (e)).

There are several approaches to categorizing the plethora of ways our civilian and non-military government enterprises can be impacted by IEMI.... [more]