“Dictionary definitions for ‘protection’ and ‘protect’ are: ‘Protection: the act of protecting; the state of being protected…Protect: to cover or shield from exposure, injury, or destruction…’ The use of ‘protect’ in HSPD-7 [Homeland Security Presidential Directive] is aligned with the dictionary definition in that it maintains the defensive focus…The CITF [Critical Infrastructure Task Force] believes that protection, in isolation, is a brittle strategy. We cannot protect every potential target against every conceivable attack; we will never eliminate all vulnerabilities. Furthermore, it is virtually impossible to define a desired end-state - to quantify how much protection is enough - when the goal is to reduce vulnerabilities. In contrast, a dictionary definition for ‘resilience’ is: ‘Resilience: an ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change’”. (Critical Infrastructure Task Force, HSC, 2006, 4)