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===United States===
The USA has had a wide-reaching [[Critical Infrastructure Protection]] Program in place since 1996. Its [[Patriot Act]] of 2001 defined critical infrastructure as those "systems and assets, whether physical or virtual, so vital to the United States that the incapacity or destruction of such systems and assets would have a debilitation impact on security, national economic security, national public health or safety, or any combination of those matters."
These have identified a number of critical infrastructures and responsible agencies:
# [[Agriculture]] and [[Food]] – Departments of [[Department of Agriculture|Agriculture]] and [[Department of Health and Human
# [[Water]] – [[United States Environmental Protection Agency|Environmental Protection Agency]]
# Public Health – [[Department of Health and Human Services]]
# Emergency Services – [[Department of Homeland Security]]
# [[Government]] – [[Department of Homeland Security]]
# [[Military Industrial Complex|Defense Industrial Base]] – [[United States Department of Defense|Department of Defense]]
# [[Information]] and [[Telecommunications]] – [[Department of Commerce]]
# [[Energy]] – [[United States Department of Energy|Department of Energy]]
# [[Transport]]ation and [[Shipping]] – [[United States Department of Transportation|Department of Transportation]]
# [[Banking]] and [[Finance]] – [[Department of the Treasury]]
# [[Chemical Industry]] and [[Hazardous Material]]s – [[Department of Homeland Security]]
# [[Mail|Post]] – [[Department of Homeland Security]]
# [[National monuments]] and icons - [[Department of the Interior]]
# Critical Manufacturing - [[Department of Homeland Security]] (14th sector announced 03-Mar-2008; recorded 30-Apr-2008)
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