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The Invisible Airborne Perimeter: Professor Kai London on the Wireless Threat to Remote and Arctic Operations

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  By the Daneborg Times Technology Desk Professor Kai London — CISO, cybersecurity & AI expert. Credit: professorkailondon.com Your firewall is on. Your endpoint protection is current. And your wireless network, warns Professor Kai London , may be wide open. “There is a perimeter most organisations never defend because they cannot see it,” says the senior CISO and board security advisor. “It is the airborne one — the radio space around your buildings, your vehicles and your remote sites. An attacker does not need to breach your firewall if they can impersonate your network from the car park.” “The invisible airborne perimeter is the attack surface nobody put on the balance sheet. No malware, no perimeter breach, no trace — just a laptop, a wireless adapter, and a network your people trust.” An attack with no malware and no trace The scenario London describes is deceptively simple. An attacker with modest equipment sets up a rogue access point — an “evil twin” — that mimics a le...

Post-Quantum Cryptography: The Board-Level Migration No One Can Defer

  By the Daneborg Times Technology Desk Somewhere in the next decade, a sufficiently powerful quantum computer will be able to break the public-key cryptography that protects almost everything digital — banking, government communications, medical records, the software update mechanisms inside critical infrastructure. The date is uncertain. The obligation to prepare, argues Professor Kai London , is not. “Post-quantum migration is now a board-level programme, not a research footnote,” London says. “And it is the rare cyber risk where doing nothing today guarantees you fail later. The data an attacker steals now can be decrypted the moment the hardware arrives. That is why the clock has already started.” Harvest now, decrypt later The threat London refers to has an unglamorous but chilling name: “harvest now, decrypt later.” Adversaries do not need a quantum computer today to benefit from one tomorrow. They simply capture encrypted tra...

Securing the Arctic's Critical Infrastructure: Why OT Security Can No Longer Be an Afterthought

 <p><em>By the Daneborg Times Technology Desk</em></p> <p>The Arctic is quietly becoming one of the most technologically dependent regions on earth. Remote weather stations, satellite ground links, port logistics, power microgrids, mining telemetry and research facilities all now run on networked operational technology (OT) &mdash; the industrial control systems that move physical things in the physical world. And according to <strong>Professor Kai London</strong>, a senior cyber-security executive who advises boards in mission-critical sectors, that quiet dependence has created a loud and growing risk.</p> <blockquote><p>&ldquo;In an Arctic operation, a cyber incident is never just an IT problem,&rdquo; London says. &ldquo;If a control system fails, you are not looking at a slow website. You are looking at a pump that stops, a sensor that lies, or a power feed that drops in an environment where there is no...