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Computer Crime and
Intellectual Property Section (CCIPS)
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Critical Infrastructure Protection
- Attorney General's Speech on Critical Infrastructure Protection
- Presidential Decision Directive 63 - Protecting the Nation's Critical Infrastructures
- President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection (PCCIP)
Our national defense, public safety, economic prosperity, and quality of life have long
depended on the efficient delivery of essential services -- energy, banking and finance,
transportation, vital human services, and telecommunications. The rapid growth and
integration of the telecommunications infrastructure has made all of these sectors
interdependent, and in the process, created unprecedented risks. CCIPS has long been
involved in investigations of cyber-attacks; the entire federal sector is now organizing to
address these new threats.
The Department of Justice and the FBI rose to the challenge by creating the National
Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC) in early 1998. On May 22, 1998, the President
issued Presidential Decision Directive 63 (PDD-63), which called for the creation of a
national plan to protect the services on which we depend daily.
A. Attorney General Janet Reno's Speech on Critical Infrastructure
Protection
On February 27, 1998, Attorney General Janet Reno addressed
the Conference on Critical Infrastructure Protection, held at
Lawrence Livermore Laboratories, in Livermore, California, to
announce the formation of the National Infrastructure Protection
Center (NIPC) at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C. The
Center is a joint government and private sector partnership,
including representatives from the relevant agencies of federal,
state, and local governments, and the private sector, to address
the daunting challenge of protecting the critical infrastructures on which our nation depends. The NIPC is designated as the
national focal point for threat assessment, warning,
investigation, and response to attacks on the critical
infrastructures. The concept for the NIPC grew out of the
Report of the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure
Protection (see section C below) and from the government's
experiences in dealing with illegal intrusions into government
and private sector computer systems over the last five years.
The Attorney General's speech is available via the link below.
B. Presidential Decision Directive 63 - Protecting the
Nation's Critical Infrastructures
On May 22, 1998, President Clinton announced two new
directives designed to strengthen the Nation's defenses against
terrorism and other unconventional threats: Presidential
Decision Directives (PDD) 62 and 63. PDD-63 focuses
specifically on protecting the Nation's critical infrastructures
from both physical and "cyber" attack. These attacks may come
from foreign governments, foreign and domestic terrorist
organizations, and foreign and domestic criminal organizations.
The NIPC is a part of the broader framework of government
efforts established by PDD-63. A Fact Sheet summary and
more detailed White Paper on PDD-63 are available through the
links below.
C. President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure
Protection (PCCIP)
President Clinton created the President's Commission on
Critical Infrastructure Protection (PCCIP) to advise and assist
the President of the United States by recommending a national
strategy for protecting and assuring critical infrastructures from
physical and cyber threats. The PCCIP Web site may be
accessed via the link below, which provides access to the
Commission Final Report as well as Legal Foundations, a
compilation of 14 supplemental reports of the PCCIP legal team
that provide background on and further explain the legal
recommendations that appear in tbe the PCCIP's final report.
The Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section's
List of Relevant Web Sites
Go to . . . CCIPS home page || Justice Department home
page
Updated page February 8, 1999
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