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National Infrastructure Protection Plan The national Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP) brings a new focus to international security cooperation and provides a risk- based framework for collaborative engagement with international partners and for measuring the effectiveness of international critical infrastructure and key resources protection activities. The NIPP provides the mechanisms, processes, key initiatives, and milestones necessary to enable the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Department of State, the Sector- Specific Agencies (SSAs), and other security partners to address international implications and requirements related to CI/KR protection. The NIPP and associated Sector-Specific Plans (SSPs) recognize that protection measures do not stop at a facility’s fence line or national borders. Many U. S. CI/KR assets, systems, and networks are interconnected with a global infrastructure that has evolved to support modern economies. Each of the CI/KR sectors is linked in varying degrees to global energy, transportation, communications, information technology, and other infrastructure sectors. This global system creates benefits and efficiencies, but also brings interdependencies, vulnerabilities, and challenges in the context of CI/ KR protection. Because disruptions in the globulin Restructure can have cascading effects around the world, the NIPP and SSPs also must consider cross- border CI/ KR, international vulnerabilities, and global dependencies and interdependencies. The Nations’ safety, security, prosperity, and way of life depends on these “systems of systems”, which must be protected both at home and abroad. The NIPP strategy for international CL/KR protection coordination and cooperation is focused on: Instituting effective cooperation with international security partners, as well as high- priority cross- border protective programs. Specific protective actions are developed through the sector planning process and specified in SSPs.