The "air-gapped" isolation of the past is gone. Today’s threat landscape is defined by five structural realities that are reshaping resilience priorities:
: Beyond cyber, the increasing intensity of extreme weather—hurricanes, floods, and wildfires—poses a direct physical threat to aging infrastructure. 2. Key Vulnerabilities in Critical Systems Critical Information Infrastructures Security: ...
: Persistent actors like "Volt Typhoon" maintain long-term access inside infrastructure, using "living-off-the-land" (LOTL) techniques to stay undetected and ready for activation during a future crisis. The "air-gapped" isolation of the past is gone
Protecting CII is complicated by several inherent weaknesses in how these systems were built and maintained: Key competencies for critical infrastructure cyber-security the increasing intensity of extreme weather—hurricanes