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DHS Asset Database Can't Support Vaunted Infrastructure Protection Plan

Wilson P. Dizard III writes on GCN.com:

The Homeland Security Department’s database of critical infrastructure and key resources is so faulty that it does not serve as a useful basis for making decisions about how to protect national resources, the department’s inspector general said in a new report issued today.

The IG’s report noted that flawed data-gathering methods had led state officials to submit irrelevant and even comical assets for inclusion in the critical asset inventory.

The database’s alleged shortcomings cast into high relief the department’s public claim in late June that DHS had completed the National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP) to protect physical assets and cyberspace, which in turn relies on the National Asset Database that the report analyzed.

posted by Fergie @ 7/12/2006 11:44:00 AM