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AI vs CNI: The next battleground

July 28, 2026 admin

Cyber attacks against critical national infrastructure are a real, and growing threats. According to the NCSC, there were more than 200 attacks against UK critical national infrastructure last year. The organisation believes many as three […]

Ukraine, cyber war and CNI

October 30, 2025 admin

Critical infrastructure is on the front line of the war in Ukraine. And as the conflict approaches its fourth year, there is little sign of that changing. But military, or kinetic, strikes against infrastructure are […]

IT, OT, and CNI: a hidden threat?

July 19, 2024 admin

Advanced economies now rely heavily on their IT infrastructure, as recent events have shown only too clearly. We are probably fortunate that the incident that grounded flights and stopped card payments around the world was […]

Critical National Infrastructure: changing threats, a changing response

March 7, 2024 admin

Critical national infrastructure is constantly under attack, from an ever greater range of threat actors. Not all the attacks are reported, of course, and governments and businesses go to great lengths to protect their systems, […]

CNI, healthcare and cyber threats

May 11, 2023 admin

Any system that is connected to the public internet is at risk of cyber attack. This poses dilemmas for operators of critical infrastructure, or CNI. Many of the devices and applications that run critical services […]

Critical infrastructure, cyber threats, and lessons from Ukraine

January 18, 2023 admin

In this episode we look at the continuing threats to critical national infrastructure, or CNI. National infrastructure is under attack from both nation state actors, and from ransomware gangs and other crime groups. And, as […]

Critical infrastructure and geopolitical risk – Mathieu Gorge

May 25, 2022 admin

Over the last decade, we have witnessed the increasing use of cyber as a political lever and a tool of conflict, if not a weapon of war. Attacks on critical infrastructure, or the potential for […]

Mobile security: a hidden weakness?

March 16, 2022 admin

Organisations of all sizes now depend heavily on mobile devices. And mobile security rarely makes the headlines these days. Yet the risks posed by ever more powerful devices, and networks, are all too real, and […]

How to hack a power station: critical infrastructure, and new norms for cyber

May 18, 2021 admin

Critical infrastructure is on the front line of cybersecurity. An attack on power, sanitation, healthcare, or even the banking system, could be catastrophic. But it could happen. Back in the 1990s, ethical hacker Joe Carson […]