Glossary of Compliance

Compliance Glossary

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Critical Infrastructure

Critical infrastructure describes the physical assets and I.T. systems that are so vital to the enterprise that their destruction or incapacity would have a devitalizing impact on the economic or physical security or public health and safety.

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