Summary
Disruption to those operations isn’t simply an IT issue; it’s a business continuity and national resilience issue. Recent high-profile cyber incidents demonstrate a clear and accelerating trend: highly capable threat actors are increasing both their intent and their ability to target organisations of national economic significance, to cause real-world operational disruption. At the same time, new technologies – like frontier AI – risk increasing the speed, scale and ease of attacks. Severe cyber threat can result in attacks which lead to: extended operational downtime, with direct customer impact increased risks to public safety and national security Given the escalating intent and capability of cyber threat actors, organisations must treat the prospect of severe cyber threat as a credible and pressing risk. Effective preparation not only protects your organisation’s value, reputation and continuity of operations, it also serves a wider purpose.