Why our national sovereignty depends on cyber resilience
From our energy infrastructure, through to the systems responsible for our telecommunications, transport and utilities, a core set of services are essential to keeping our society running.
World events have rightly put Britain’s defense capabilities under renewed attention, but our national sovereignty is maintained just as much by the cyber resiliency of these critical systems as much as it is by nuclear deterrents, submarines and physical military hardware.
Operational Technology (OT) systems control power generation, transmission, distribution and gas transport safely and reliably. The increasing digitization and connection of these systems is seeing cyber risk emerge, whether it’s from the exploitation of unpatched vulnerabilities, phishing, or malware attacks.
Launched by nation-state groups, or criminal elements employed as proxies, they are among the most significant threats to the industry, as they hope to trigger knock-on effects and cause severe disruption to everyday life.
A combination of internal gaps in strategy, cybersecurity...
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