The Department of Homeland Security, which is charged with protecting critical infrastructure, defines it as the assets, systems, and networks, whether physical or virtual, so vital to the United States that their incapacitation or destruction would have a debilitating effect on security, national economic security, national public health or safety, or any combination thereof.
Senator Rounds defines critical infrastructure as vital to national security.
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