How hard do you think it would be to disable our civilization? Not as hard as you think.
Everything, everywhere, all the time now depends on a working power grid and telecommunications, and there are few organizations still willing or able to conduct business “when the system is down”.

Everyone now assumes the universal availability of a fast, reliable Internet to reach "The Cloud”. But as always, “The Cloud" is just someone else's computer, part of a series of large virtual datacenter platforms that host most of the SaaS systems used by modern business. This cloud is an ever-growing mass of tangible physical equipment inside data centers across the nation and the world, interconnected via complex webs of power and fiber cables on utility poles, in underground conduits, or undersea. All of which are vulnerable to the natural elements, targeted attacks, and to unforeseen and unknown systemic interdependencies.

From our experiences as an infrastructure engineer and a threat intel analyst, we will discuss the physical and cybersecurity risks to the operations of the Internet and other critical infrastructure systems. Think natural disasters, ransomware in data centers, terrorism and sabotage, plus human error at scale. We’ll discuss how outages created by threat actors, climate change, or bad planning are impacting society via the businesses and services our civilization depends on. And because we can still prepare in advance, we’ll give you some recommendations and mitigation strategies to try to keep your organization or community connected. State sponsored adversarial attacks will increasingly seek to exploit our weaknesses to “Disrupt and Disable” then leverage the ensuing communications blackouts to incite mass panic or worse. Remember the nation-wide Rogers network outage of 2022? Are we ready for what’s next?