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Mar 12

From Warning to Reality: Global Cyber Disruption ‘Strykes’ in Real Time

A little over a week since our Cyber Risk and Operational Resilience Amid Middle East Conflict article, highlighting the rising risk of geopolitical cyber disruption, global medical technology company Stryker has become a stark example of that risk with thousands of employees locked out of systems, production halted, and operations disrupted... read more →

12 March 2026
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Mar 04

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Cyber Risk and Operational Resilience Amid Middle East Conflict

As tensions escalate in the Middle East, risk to IT operations has expanded beyond cyberspace. Drone strikes on Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centers in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain disrupted cloud services and caused prolonged outages, highlighting that physical attacks can directly impact critical infrastructure. This incident marks... read more →

4 March 2026
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Feb 25

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Are We Sleepwalking into a Grid Crisis? AI, Energy & a Reckoning.

In November 2025, we wrote about the return of the data centre to centre stage - Back to the Future: Why Data Centres Are Front Page News Again - and how artificial intelligence (AI) had dragged the physical internet back into view. At the time, the dominant tone was ambition:... read more →

25 February 2026
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Feb 19

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Can You Afford Not to Be Trusted? Cyber Resilience Is Brand Currency

Cyber security has long been framed as a technical discipline - the domain of IT teams, compliance officers, and CISOs. That framing is no longer sufficient. Today, cyber resilience is not just about preventing attacks; it is a critical determinant of customer trust, brand equity, and long-term commercial viability. New... read more →

19 February 2026
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Feb 10

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Need for Speed: Why the Automotive Industry Can’t Outpace Ransomware

The automotive industry is built for motion. Vehicles move, supply chains move, production lines never stop moving or at least, they’re not supposed to. Yet over the past year, some of the sector’s biggest names have found themselves brought to a standstill, not by parts shortages or labour issues, but... read more →

10 February 2026
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Feb 04

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Ransomware, Reputation, and Risk – Why Global Organisations Are Prime Targets

Ransomware attacks are no longer isolated IT incidents. They are strategic, high-impact assaults that threaten the survival of global organisations. Companies operating across multiple countries, with complex supply chains, overseas subsidiaries, and diverse decision-making structures, have become especially attractive targets. Recent high-profile incidents involving well-known global brands have shown how... read more →

4 February 2026
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