The
U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) plans to help ethnic and
faith-based communities handle terror threats by adopting procedures
used by the Secure Community Network
(SCN). The department's goal is to mimic the SCN platform for national
security and preparedness and use it as a means to decrease the number
of acts of terrorism by increasing both communications and information
sharing.
The DHS National Protection and Programs Directorate Office of Infrastructure Protection
(IP) focuses on protecting the nation's critical infrastructure and key
resources (CIKR). The IP works to reduce terror threats and to
strengthen national preparedness and response and recovery times,
largely through public-private partnerships because most of the
national CIKR is privately owned.
