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Examine CISR topics such as resilience; risk management; information sharing; systems analysis; policies and strategies; cross-sector dependencies and inter-dependencies; international CISR and cybersecurity with this collection of comprehensive curriculum and supplemental case studies.
The Center for Infrastructure Protection and Homeland Security (CIP/HS) at George Mason University School of Law has made the courses below available for free to be incorporated into the curriculum of any program and used by any institution.
Course Materials
Introduction to CISR
Provides an introduction to the policy, strategy and practical application of Critical Infrastructure Security and Resiliance.
Information Sharing for CISR
An overview of information sharing within the national security/homeland security enterprise with a focus on the information sharing necessary to protect and make the Nation’s critical infrastructure more resilient.
Risk Management for CISR
Provides an introduction to the policy, strategy, and practical application of risk management and risk analysis from an all-hazards perspective.
CISR and Resilience Systems Analysis
Focuses on systems analysis in the context of critical infrastructure security and resilience.
Methods, Policies and Strategies
Student-centered learning, integrates critical decision-making, and uses historical event case studies to reinforce national security and homeland security policies governing the protection, identification, and resilience of the Nation’s critical infrastructure from an all-hazards context with emphasis on the prevention, mitigation, and response to adversary attack scenarios against single or multiple critical infrastructure sectors.
CISR — The Cyber Dimension
Provides a careful examination of the methods necessary to identify and address risks to critical information infrastructures from a variety of human and natural threats.
CISR — Sector Approaches and Cross-Sector Interdependencies
Compares and contrasts the different approaches vis-à-vis security and resilience utilized within the various critical infrastructure sectors, including those that operate within a defined regulatory space and those that do not.
CISR —The International Dimension
Discuss how governments at the national and multi-national levels and international corporations have developed various approaches to secure and enhance the resilience of critical infrastructures and supply chains in response to growing and evolving international threats.
CISR — Identifying, Assessing, and Addressing Emergent Threats
Explores the strategic and operational context provided in the National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP) and discusses the challenges associated with understanding and taking action — including investment strategies— to address a diverse spectrum of threats and hazards across our critical infrastructure sectors and systems.
Designing Resilient Infrastructure
A focus on five areas that shape critical infrastructure design: policy, networks/system behavior, all hazards environment, risk management, technical design, and social implications.
CISR Capstone
Intended to foster the development of an advanced baseline of relevant knowledge among seminar participants and apply this baseline to “hands-on” critical infrastructure security and resilience strategy and plan development and in-classroom incident management exercises.