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National Strategy for Homeland Security - In July 2002, the President issued this strategy to mobilize and organize our Nation to secure the U.S. Homeland from terrorist attacks. It provides direction to the federal government and suggests steps that state and local governments, private companies and organizations, and individual Americans can take to improve our security and incentives for them to do so.

National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace - In February 2003, the President issued this strategy as part of the overall effort to protect the United States. It is an implementing component of the National Strategy for Homeland Security and is complemented by a National Strategy for the Physical Protection of Critical Infrastructures and Key Assets. The purpose of this document is to engage and empower Americans to secure the portions of cyberspace that they own, operate, control, or with which they interact. Securing cyberspace is a difficult strategic challenge that requires coordinated and focused effort from our entire society, the federal government, state and local governments, the private sector and the American people.

21 Steps to Improve Cyber Security of SCADA Networks - In September 2002, the President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board, and the Department of Energy, developed the steps outlined here to help any organization improve the security of the digital devices that control modern infrastructures across all industrial sectors. This is a supporting document to the President's National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace.

National Strategy for the Physical Protection of Critical Infrastructures and Key Assets - In February 2003, the President issued this strategy to serve as a critical bridge between the National Strategy for Homeland Security and a national protection plan to be developed by the Department of Homeland Security. The strategic objectives that underpin the national infrastructure and key asset protection effort include: identifying and assuring the protection of those infrastructure and assets we deem most critical; providing timely warning and assuring the protection of those infrastructures and assets that face a specific, imminent threat; and assuring the protection of other infrastructures and assets that may become targets over time by pursuing specific initiatives and enabling a collaborative environment between the public and private sector.