A cyber incident disrupts an energy operator. Power loss affects mobile networks and digital services. Emergency teams struggle to coordinate, while transport delays hold up fuel and repair crews. This is how cascading crises develop: a disruption that begins in one system spreads through the services that depend on it. This is the interconnected threat […]

On 12 May 2017, hospital staff across England reached for patient records and found locked screens instead. The risk wasn’t new. Neither were many of the vulnerabilities exposed by the crises that followed. We have accumulated years of reports, inquiries, and recommendations on how to protect critical infrastructure. Yet the distance between identifying a risk […]

When temperatures rise, the first concern is usually public health. That is understandable. Extreme heat can put lives at risk, especially for older adults, outdoor workers, medically vulnerable communities, and people without reliable access to cooling. But heat also tests the systems behind daily life. Electric grids face higher cooling demand. Hospitals may see more […]