Assignment: NIPP

Due Week 4 and worth 50 points

Write a two to four page paper in which you:

1. Analyze the National Infrastructure Protection Plan and Risk Management Framework and conclude how it has been designed to protect the nation's critical infrastructure.

2. Determine the purpose of the feedback loop design and argue how it strengthens or weakens the model. Justify your response.

3. Decide if taking a "risk management" approach is suitable for protecting the nation's critical infrastructure. Support your response.

4. Choose the one step that is the most important or has the greatest impact on the other steps of the Risk Management Framework and describe why.

5. Discuss two criticisms of the NIPP model and suggest ways of dealing with those criticisms.

6. Use at least three quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.