#critical-infrastructure

#critical-infrastructure

The Indurex platform ingests and correlates data from multiple sources across the cyber-physical stack, with a strong focus on industrial historians, instrumentation and asset management systems (IAMS), alarm management, and OT network and endpoint data. The platform, which can be integrated with third-party OT security solutions, is designed to unify cyber, process, and safety context into a single operational view, using adaptive risk scoring to highlight issues and prioritize response actions.

A silent crisis is shaking the very foundations of modern society. The industrial workforce responsible for building the global economy is at risk of crumbling. The people charged with keeping our power grids online, factories humming, utilities reliable, and supply chains moving uninterrupted are retiring at a fast clip. Sure, this may seem like the natural cycle of things as mass retirement opens the door to at least 3.8 million jobs.

In organizations with mature processes, this demonstrably leads to a 30 to 50 percent reduction in mean time to respond. This is not an optimization, but a necessary adjustment. The question is no longer whether AI agents will be deployed, but how far their autonomy extends. Security teams must explicitly determine which decisions can be automated and where human oversight remains mandatory. If these frameworks are lacking, the risks only increase.

The funding will establish a Government Cyber Unit, led by the UK's CISO and overseen by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT), to improve risk identification, incident response, and recovery capabilities. The unit will also create a dedicated Government Cyber Profession, elevating cybersecurity from its current placement under the broader Government Security Profession.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published a guide detailing venue security and disruption management. In this guide, venue owners and operators can review fundamental strategies to mitigate repercussions of possible disruptions to the critical lifeline sectors of: Communications Energy Transportation Water and Wastewater Systems While this guide serves as a broad catalog for support, it is not comprehensive. Security leaders in the event security space are encouraged to leverage the provided resources and consider them in the context of their venue's unique needs.

Even incidents like the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack, which showed us how the cyber world and our physical lives intersect, stopped far short of societal disruption. However, the threat of cyberwar has been building, influenced by advancements in AI and increased presence of actors in U.S. systems and telecommunication networks. A military conflict could escalate these attacks to scale, crippling critical infrastructure and public safety systems like power grids, transportation networks and emergency response, even disrupting military communications and undermining response.

Proponents of AI preemption equate competitiveness with deregulation, arguing that state-level guardrails hamper innovation and weaken the United States in its technological competition with China. The reality is the opposite. Today's most serious national-security vulnerabilities involving AI stem not from too much oversight, but from the absence of it. AI systems already underpin essential functions across our economy and national-security apparatus, including airport routing, energy-grid forecasting, fraud-detection systems, real-time battlefield data integration, and an expanding range of defense-industrial-base operations.

Andravia and Harbadus - two nations so often at odds with one another - were once again embroiled in conflict over the past seven days, which thoroughly tested NATO's cybersecurity experts' ability to coordinate defenses across battlefield domains. Around 1,500 practitioners took part in the annual battle that engulfed the island of Occasus-Icebergen, all working together to remediate cyberattacks on critical systems, the effects of which influenced how land, sea, and air forces were able to respond.

This represents a "new operational model that's neither traditional cyber attack nor conventional warfare," Amazon Chief Security Officer Steve Schmidt told The Register. "The targeting data collected through cyber means flows directly into kinetic decision making."

According to Burgess, a hacker group known as Volt Typhoon is trying to break into critical infrastructure networks such as power, water, and transportation systems. Burgess warned that successful hacks could affect energy and water supplies, and cause widespread outages. The U.S. has previously said that the Chinese hackers have spent years planting malware on critical infrastructure systems that are capable of causing disruptive cyberattacks when activated.

The Cyber Security and Resilience Bill (CSRB) aims to ensure critical services, including healthcare, water, transport and energy, are protected against cyber attacks, which cost the UK economy almost £15bn a year.

I do not think we truly appreciate how disruptive, how devastating, this could be "That's one phone network not working for less than one day," he said. "Imagine the implications if a nation state took down all the networks? Or turned off the power during a heatwave? Or polluted our drinking water? Or crippled our financial system?"

In April, the group targeted a Ukrainian university with two wipers, a form of malware that aims to permanently destroy sensitive data and often the infrastructure storing it. One wiper, tracked under the name Sting, targeted fleets of Windows computers by scheduling a task named DavaniGulyashaSdeshka, a phrase derived from Russian slang that loosely translates to "eat some goulash," researchers from ESET said. The other wiper is tracked as Zerlot.

"The impression is almost unavoidable that the AfD is working through a Kremlin order list with its inquiries," Maier said, adding that the questions had demanded "increasing intensity and depth of detail."

It needs a security mechanism that triggers action automatically, not after collective consultations and individual deliberations. In recent months, a new baseline idea has taken hold in European and United States debates on Ukraine: Article 5like guarantees. In March, Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni was the first to suggest a mechanism inspired by Article 5 of the NATO Charter, which provides for collective action in the event of an attack on a member.

"If you are willing to go after a small water provider in Littleton, Massachusetts, what other target is off the list?" asked Former National Security Agency Director Gen. Tim Haugh on "60 Minutes."

Why are utilities a prime target for cyberattacks? What can security leaders do to prevent them? What happens when unexpected budget cuts slice your department in half? Tune in to learn how security leaders can simplify complexity, embrace cloud-native platforms, and design scalable, resilient command centers for the future. Protecting Critical Infrastructure With Limited Funding Romero shares common threats towards critical infrastructure and advice for security leaders navigating different challenges.

At stake is a diminished workforce with less capability to analyze and track cyber threats, as well as a bedrock cybersecurity data-sharing law that would expire in tandem with that lapse in appropriations, they told Nextgov/FCW. A shutdown would exacerbate risks to critical infrastructure because staff and resources would be less available for infrastructure owners and operators to access, said Ilona Cohen, chief legal and policy officer at HackerOne and former general counsel at the Office of Management and Budget.

Danish prime minister Mette Frederiksen conceded earlier that there may be more to come, as she laid bare the challenge these hybrid attacks pose for the country in a rare TV address. She conceded that the recent events showed vulnerabilities in Denmark's critical infrastructure, but urged citizens not to give in to insecurity and division they were meant to create.

It can't be understated what this system is capable of doing," said Matt McCool, the special agent in charge of the Secret Service's New York field office. "It can take down cell towers, so then no longer can people communicate, right? .... You can't text message, you can't use your cell phone. And if you coupled that with some sort of other event associated with UNGA, you know, use your imagination there, it could be catastrophic to the city."

the most serious attack on Danish critical infrastructure to date,

The internet was built to connect machines, not people. Its basic architecture maps servers to domain names and uses cryptographic certificates to prove websites are authentic. Yet it lacks a built-in way to bridge the gap between our offline identities - citizen, taxpayer, patient, employee, student - and the digital systems on which we increasingly rely to conduct our economic, civic, and personal lives.

As the U.S.-Japan alliance confronts an era where digital threats increasingly target economic stability and national security, integrating cyber strategy into the relationship is essential. The longstanding pillars of military, trade, and diplomacy have supported peace and prosperity. Still, the rise of cyberspace as a borderless, high-stakes domain demands that both nations make cybersecurity a foundational element of their partnership in the Indo-Pacific and beyond.

The US State Department has put a $10 million bounty on the heads of three Russians accused of being intelligence agents hacking America's critical infrastructure - primarily via old Cisco kit, it seems. The alert directly connects them to reports of the Russian Federal Security Service's (FSB) Center 16 - aka Berserk Bear - accused of using a flaw (CVE-2018-0171) Cisco patched in 2018, but attackers recently exploited it in the Salt Typhoon hacking campaign,

A Deutsche Bahn (DB) spokeswoman told the dpa news agency that the fire appeared to have been fueled by an accelerant. Initial findings indicated cable sheathing had been set on fire near railway switches the mechanisms that let a train move from one track to another. Police described it as a "switch fire" that was large enough to have been noticed by a nearby resident who informed authorities shortly before midnight.

Let's dig into what this really means, why it matters, and where we go from here. But then I thought a bit more. It's not just necessary-it's overdue. And not only for national security systems. This gap in software understanding exists across nearly every enterprise and agency in the public and private sector. The real challenge is not recognizing the problem. It's addressing it early, systemically and sustainably-especially in a DevSecOps context.

At least one implementation of the end-to-end encryption solution endorsed by ETSI has a similar issue that makes it equally vulnerable to eavesdropping.

ENISA found a need to align requirements across borders in each NIS sector, emphasizing that collaboration must be strengthened through community building events and cooperation.