Critical Infrastructure Protection is the need to safeguard a nation/region's important infrastructures, such as food, agriculture, or transportation. Critical infrastructures include transportation systems, power grids, and communication systems. Critical infrastructure protection is important to communities because any damage to these infrastructures is dangerous to global economies and the world.
A cyber or cybersecurity threat is a harmful act that seeks to steal data, damage data, or disrupt digital life. Cyber threat is also the possibility of a successful cyber attack that aims to gain prohibited access to damage, disrupt, or steal an information technology asset, computer network, intellectual property, or any other form of sensitive data. Critical infrastructure protection is important to communities because any damage to these infrastructures is dangerous to global economies and the world.