Question

Identify one critical infrastructure or key resource CI/KR with which you are most likely to interact in a typical day. Choose the one with which you are least likely to interact. Explain why you considered them to be critical in your daily life.

Answer 1

• Critical infrastructure and key resources (CIKR) is the totality of natural and man-made resources upon which a nation depends on for functioning, along with the systems for their processing, delivery and protection.
• Critical infrastructure includes transport, energy, IT, communications, agricultural, food and water systems, as well as other sectors.
  
• The power resource is the major critical infrastructure that we use everyday.Its there in our homes and workplaces. All our home appliances from television to air conditioners work on power.And this is the most used resource on an everyday basis without which our lives stop.
• Even the transportation we use on an everyday basis to travel anywhere is another major used facility.It definitely makes communicating easy and faster.
• Chemicals probably is the one which least interacted with by common people like us.The Chemical Sector is an integral component of the U.S. economy that manufactures, stores, uses, and transports potentially dangerous chemicals upon which a wide range of other critical infrastructure sectors rely. Securing these chemicals against growing and evolving threats requires vigilance from both the private and public sector.