Critical Infrastructure

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Military organizations have long prepared for contested and degraded environments where communications may fail from these efforts, or worse, infrastructure is destroyed completely. Critical infrastructure operators now face a similar reality.
It’s time to plan past intrusion and prepare for disruption, leveraging a contingency-planning discipline and wartime mindset.
Aug. 24, 2026
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The urgency behind the new Trump Executive Order reflects growing concern about frontier models with advanced cybersecurity capabilities: systems that can identify vulnerabilities at scale, prioritize exploitation pathways, and develop attacks with minimal human intervention.
Aug. 19, 2026
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The time for treating OT security as an IT problem is over. Water security is operational security, public safety and national resilience. The next phase of cyber warfare will test all three.
Aug. 18, 2026
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Aug. 5, 2026
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The industry has reached a rare moment of alignment. Detection is necessary but insufficient. Identity is foundational but incomplete. Zero Trust for agents means applying least privilege access at runtime, not just at the perimeter. The control that consistently holds is the one that supervises behavior in real time and stops an agent when it leaves its job.
Aug. 5, 2026
Dr. Ron Martin will advise Iluminar customers on developing risk-informed security strategies that combine physical security, access control and cybersecurity for critical infrastructure.
July 28, 2026
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Building a robust workforce requires a strategic and multifaceted approach. By crafting a strong employer brand, offering competitive compensation and benefits, investing in professional development, fostering a culture of innovation and inclusion, and utilizing advanced recruitment techniques, your organization can attract and retain top talent in the security industry.
July 9, 2026
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This new guidance is a broader, three-pillar blueprint: secure the DNS infrastructure, ensure the integrity of DNS systems and configurations, and implement Protective DNS as a cybersecurity control.
July 6, 2026
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In executive discussions, risks are routinely described as “mitigated,” often with an implicit assumption that mitigation equates to resolution. Controls are implemented, policies are updated, or technologies are deployed, and leadership takes comfort in the belief that exposure has been sufficiently addressed. From an ESRM perspective, however, mitigation is only one of several risk treatment options, and it is rarely absolute.
June 16, 2026

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