Overview
Critical infrastructure preservation asks whether essential systems can keep functioning when exposed to physical, environmental, operational, or adversarial stress.
Planning questions
- Which assets create the highest public, operational, or financial consequence if disrupted?
- Which retrofit options can reduce risk without forcing full replacement?
- Which stakeholders need to approve the scope before procurement?
- How should the project preserve continuity during construction?
Related analysis
Energy Resilience
BESS Sites Need More Than a Fence Line
Battery energy storage projects are infrastructure assets. Site security should account for thermal exposure, responder access, standoff, ballistic risk, and cascading-loss scenarios.
Grid Security
NERC CIP-014 Turns Physical Security Into an Executive Risk Question
CIP-014 is not a product checklist. It forces owners to identify critical stations and substations, assess threats, and implement physical-security plans appropriate to system impact.
Threat-Informed Design
Critical Facilities Need Layered Protection, Not Single-Point Solutions
Ballistic materials, access control, standoff, fire response, screening, and continuity planning only work when they are engineered as a system.