Critical infrastructure

Critical infrastructure is like a big castle that keeps our cities and countries safe. Just like a castle needs strong walls, soldiers and weapons to protect the king and the people inside, critical infrastructure needs important things to keep it working properly and safe.

These important things are things like power grids that keep our homes and hospitals running, water and sewage systems that bring clean water to our homes and take dirty water away, roads and bridges that help us move around and get things to different places, airports and train stations that allow us to travel, and communication networks that allow us to talk to each other using phones and computers.

If any of these important things stop working, it can cause a lot of problems and make people feel worried and unsafe. That is why we need to make sure that critical infrastructure is protected from things that could damage or destroy them, like cyber-attacks, natural disasters or terrorist attacks.

People who work to protect critical infrastructure, like cybersecurity experts, engineers, and emergency responders, are like knights who guard the castle and make sure everything stays safe and working properly.