Critical Infrastructure Mitigation and Protection
The management of a community's risk to critical infrastructure is a major component to preparedness. Preventing or mitigating the consequences of threats against the essential functions of government, the military, and commerce requires a proven approach implemented by an experienced team with a thorough knowledge of national homeland security and emergency management guidance and initiatives. IEM has both a thorough understanding of national initiatives as well as demonstrated on-the-ground experience. IEM risk-based solutions help reduce the chances of threats, make it more difficult for threats to be carried out, and mitigate the outcomes should they happen.
Protection strategies for DHS, FEMA.
DHS asked IEM to develop and launch its Web-based Chemical Security Awareness Training for the thousands of employees directly involved in the manufacture, transportation, and storage of chemicals. In addition, IEM expertise was deployed to FEMA Headquarters after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita to help identify potential mid- and long-term impacts on the petroleum industry, housing materials, and emergency management infrastructure.
Leading-edge technologies, expertise.
Serious games and GIS technologies give IEM the edge in critical infrastructure protection and mitigation. Hazard analysis, risk assessment, and impact analysis are essential components for all emergency planning, including protecting the nation's and a community's critical infrastructure. IEM's 3-D modeling allows emergency management and security planners to design their own event and protection scenarios, simulate and free-fly the full scenario, view the results, and then modify their scenario, and run it again.
IEM experts include cyber-threat specialists with certification in information systems security, as well as physical security, explosive specialists, and other emergency response professionals with knowledge of critical infrastructure sector threats, vulnerabilities, and potential consequences.
