Comparing and Contrasting the two critical infrastructures: transportation system sector and communication sector; interrelationship
While there is no set design for this research paper assignment, some of these suggestions below should help you in working with your instructor to design a worthwhile project. With each of these, you should feel free to use as needed to establish as narrow and focused a research project as is possible:
Why are you interested in these sectors?
What makes these sectors critical?
What have been the history and current challenges in these sectors (e.g., in terms of protection or assurance/reliability; federal-local or public-private governance and relations such as in partnerships (Links to an external site.))?
If choosing two sectors, compare and contrast them on how they function, how their plans work, how Private-Public partnerships work, how resilient they are etc.?
If choosing only one sector, explore how the approach of the US differs from other countries in this sector?
What vulnerabilities does each sector have, and do you find commonalities in these (e.g., vis-à-vis cyber threats), or differences that you see in them?
What are the likeliest futures of the sectors you are reviewing, and how would you improve their protection or reliability/assurance (e.g., what do you see that could be done differently in them, better perhaps on some dimension of critical infrastructure functioning)?
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