National security memorandum updates structure for addressing critical infrastructure resilience

President Biden has signed a long-awaited national security memorandum to update the government’s work to address critical infrastructure resilience and security at the interagency level, within the intelligence community and in partnership with key sectors.

“Critical infrastructure comprises the physical and virtual assets and systems so vital to the Nation that their incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on national security, national economic security, or national public health or safety. It is diverse and complex, and includes distributed...