What will attackers target in 2025? CNI, CNI, and more CNI!
Critical national infrastructure (CNI) has had a rough 2024 in the UK when it comes to cybercrime. From the chaos caused by a teenager who hacked into TfL to the dangerous impact on the NHS after the Synnovis breach. And let us not forget the ongoing fallout from the Sellafield breach in December 2023.
These are just a few of the notable cases of a much wider problem, with Bridewell finding that 60 percent of UK CNI organizations experiencing at least one ransomware attack over the past 12 months.
It's time to get proactive on the UK's critical national infrastructure (CNI) security -- but where to start?
The critical national infrastructure that underpins the UK has undergone a tremendous amount of digital transformation in recent years. Areas like water treatment, energy and food production are still heavily reliant on operational technology (OT) systems that were often designed and implemented long before the digital revolution.
Digitizing these systems and connecting them to standard IT networks has allowed operators to boost efficiency and bring in practices like remote working and data collection that weren’t possible in an analogue environment.