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It is important to address the physical and cyber security needs of critical infrastructures, including systems, facilities, and assets. Security requirements may include capabilities to prevent and protect against both physical and digital intrusion, hazards, threats, and incidents, and to expeditiously recover and reconstitute critical services. Energy security has serious repercussions for mission critical facilities. Mission critical facilities do not have the luxury of being able to shut down or run at a reduced capacity during outages, whether they last minutes, hours, or days. Disaster recovery plans are a necessity for mission critical facilities, involving the proper training of business continuity personnel to enact enterprise-level plans for business resiliency. Steps need to be taken to improve information security and mitigate the threat of cyber-attacks. The Smart Grid is the convergence of electric distribution systems and modern digital information technology.