About CPNI

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About the Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure

CPNI provides integrated security advice (combining information, personnel and physical) to organisations which make up the national infrastructure. Our advice helps to reduce the vulnerability of the national infrastructure (primarily the critical national infrastructure) to terrorism and other threats to national security. We also provide protective security advice for the London 2012 Olympics and space technologies.

We are an interdepartmental organisation, with resources from industry, academia and a number of government departments and agencies (including the Security Service, CESG and departments responsible for national infrastructure sectors). We draw on expertise, knowledge and information from the range of organisations that contribute to our work.

We sponsor research and work in partnership with academia, government partners, research institutions and the private sector to develop applications that can reduce vulnerability to terrorist and other attacks and lessen the impact if an attack does take place.

We also have special access to intelligence and information about threats to national security, which informs our advice and priorities.

CPNI in context

CPNI's protective security advice is aimed at reducing the vulnerability of the critical national infrastructure to national security threats such as terrorism and espionage. The context in which these threats are addressed at national level is outlined below. Advice covers physical, personnel and information security, and includes cyber security.

CPNI in context

The national infrastructure

The national infrastructure comprises the facilities, systems, sites and networks necessary for the delivery of the essential services upon which daily life in the UK depends.

The national infrastructure

Who we work with

CPNI works with a variety of key partners including: government departments with responsibility for infrastructure sectors; businesses and organisations that own or operate national infrastructure; and other security specialists and advice delivery partners including the Police. Effective tripartite relationships between security specialists, government departments and businesses within the national infrastructure are vital to achieving our overarching goal of vulnerability reduction.

Who we work with

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