Critical Systems
Chinese IoT ‘kill switches’ could disable Britain’s critical systems and infrastructure, MPs warn
"When one country controls the overwhelming supply of a technology, that is by its nature a structural risk."
Hackers piggybacked on the deeply unpopular communications app to quietly siphon data out of a "major US services firm".
Security
"Enterprise environments are growing in complexity, making it harder to effectively oversee risk using traditional models and tools."
Critical Systems
The first part of an ongoing series exploring threats that could trigger catastrophic cascading failures across the modern world.
AI
Will legacy homo sapiens lose control of its systems as AI agents take the reins and complexity spirals beyond the comprehension of our species?
Systemic Risk
“Crises no longer arrive neatly or sequentially. They overlap, compound, and amplify one another.”
AI
From courts to call centres, AI is spreading across the public sector. We examine the UK government’s plans and the risks of an automated state.
Security
Dr Andrew Bolster sets out new security approaches that respond to the accelerating pace of AI-enabled software development.
Internet
"Winners will need auditability, permissions, simulations, escalation paths and a harness that knows when to shut the machine up."
AI
Want a job at Salesforce? Then you'd better start sharpening up those non-automatable people skills...
Breaking changes in critical systems
"Artifical intelligence is altering the threat landscape and unsettling long-held assumptions about security, governance, and resilience."
Moscow-linked threat actors are allegedly targeting supply chains and critical infrastructure in undeclared hybrid warfare operations.
Financial chiefs rush to address the risk of automated exploits and accelerated cyber attacks following the release of Anthropic’s Mythos.
“The scale and speed of the spread resemble some of the most disruptive supply chain incidents we have seen in recent years."
Critical financial infrastructure went down for hours due to an overheating incident on a dreary spring evening in Virginia
"Practitioners do not experience their work as a choice between paradigms. They experience it as a sequence of problems."
"This is not a wearable trying to convince you it can transform your life through algorithmic enlightenment..."
"This forces a re‑evaluation of the timeline for serious nation-state covert cyber sabotage operations".
" Intelligence and military agencies are displaying an eye-watering level of sophistication in their cyber operations."
"Consumer applications were never designed to protect confidentiality or meet the demands of high-security environments."
"Shocks can arrive with little warning and the vulnerabilities that preceded past crises have not disappeared, but re-emerged elsewhere."
"Without appropriate rules and boundaries in place, agentic AI will be left to run riot, with speed and independence spiralling into risk."