The
Risk Analysis and Management for Critical Asset Protection
(RAMCAP
(R)
) methodology and its current, updated version, RAMCAP Plus
SM
, is an all‐hazard risk and resilience management process for critical infrastructure. Its purpose is to identify and prioritize investments in preparedness of the nation's critical infrastructure, including protection (avoiding adverse events and their consequences) and resilience (continuing to function during or rapidly returning to full function after such events). It includes hazards due to terrorism, naturally occurring events, supply chain dependencies, product contamination and proximity to dangerous sites. It is a general approach, expressly designed to be used by the staff and management of infrastructure facilities with a modicum of training or outside expertise. It is especially effective when tailored into sector‐specific versions, of which eight have been completed ranging from nuclear power plants to water or wastewater systems to university campuses. Its objective, quantitative, standardized approach permits direct comparisons of risk, resilience and the benefits of security, and resilience investments—essential for rational resource allocation—at scales ranging from assets to sectors, across sectors to regions or national economies, and across time, which is essential for accountability and management of the resulting programs. Looking to the future, RAMCAP Plus and two of the sector‐specific versions are being developed as American National Standards, and a working group is adapting it to both aging and new infrastructures while this is being written.
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