Governor’s Office of Homeland Security & Emergency Preparedness

LOUISIANA BANKERS ASSOCIATION 2010 Louisiana Emergency Preparedness Coalition Meetings

SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination. Tommy Lasorda

Directors Philosophy

Communication Collaboration Customer Service

Director Mark Cooper

Identifying the Bad Guy

18 Critical Sectors

Banking and Finance

Healthcare and Public Health Transportation Telecommunications Critical Manufacturing (New) Nuclear Facilities Dams Government Facilities Commercial Assets National Monuments and Icons Postal and Shipping Agriculture and Food Chemical and Hazardous Materials • Defense Industrial Base Information Technology Water Energy Emergency Services

Banking and Finance Energy RECOVERY Water

Definition

Critical Infrastructure (CI):

Assets, systems, and networks, whether physical or virtual, so vital to the United States that the incapacity or destruction of such assets, systems, or networks would have a debilitating impact on security, national economic security, public health or safety, or any combination of those matters.

Key Resources (KR):

As defined in the Homeland Security Act of 2002, key resources are publicly or privately controlled resources essential to the minimal operations of the economy and government.

HAZARDS/DISASTERS

OKLAHOMA NATURAL MAN MADE

HIGHJACKING BIOLOGICAL (Pandemic) CAR BOMBING SUICIDE ATTACK CYBER ELECTRONIC

Mission of HOMELAND SECURITY

FEDERAL

States

- an independent agency established by and accountable to the President in 2001;

implements a national strategy to make the United safe “develops and from terrorist threats or attacks”.

STATE – identify a strategic direction for enhancing our State, Region, and Parish response capabilities and capacity to

prevent

and

reduce

the State’s vulnerability to all-hazard disaster events.

Working Group Mission

Prevent Safe Threats

Reduce

ALL HAZARD PLAN

Disaster/Hazard Common Concerns

Mass casualties Loss of critical resources Disruption of vital services Disruption of the economy Individual and mass panic

HARD

ARE WE A

SOFT

Contact Information

Sandy Berry, Senior Infrastructure Protection Specialist

Office: (225) 925-7544 Email: [email protected]

Valerie H. Constanza, Infrastructure Protection Specialist

Office: (225) 922-2448 Email: [email protected]

Questions