CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE

Part 1

The health care sector is an area of critical infrastructure and hospitals are an asset to it. The hospitals add value to our community through the services they offer. This includes quality healthcare services to all the patients as well as advising the patients on various ways to stay healthy. The community at times fails to protect the success of the healthcare system in Las Vegas by failing to follow the instructions given which can be explained by the high levels of obesity in children and tobacco-related diseases which are caused by the nature of the city (Irvine & Armstrong, 2003). They also jeopardize the quality of the asset by failing to seek treatment from the right hospitals especially when the income levels are low and the hospital insurance cover cannot cover the entire cost that makes the affected individual seek other subsidized health care. This possesses a great threat to the members of the community as a result of the expensive health care risking poor quality services exposing the asset to improper criticism (Irvine & Armstrong, 2003).

Part 2

Protection refers to shielding someone against harm or injury. Resiliency refers to the ability to overcome challenges. Concepts and actions are taken as measures of achieving protection and resilience. Each measure has its own definition goal that is supported differently in order to achieve its objective (Steiner, 2014). This is because some of the measures cannot work in some areas where others may not yield much of a positive report. The professionals that claim that the concept of protection and resilience cannot be solved are wrong. This is because when we look at Homeland Security it has incorporated different mechanism in various places that tend to reduce the vulnerability of America to terrorism as well as minimizing attacks that do occur (Steiner, 2014). The concepts vary depending on the area and the level of threat in order to achieve the main objective which is to protect and be resilient to attacks.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reference

Irvine, C., & Armstrong, H. (2003). Security Education and Critical Infrastructures: IFIP TC11. Boston, MA: Springer US.

Steiner, J. E. (2014). Homeland Security Intelligence. Washington DC: CQ Press