Critical Infrastructure

The trajectory is fairly clear: Smart City 1.0 was about efficiency and automation. Smart City 2.0, where most major cities sit today, focuses on integrated safety, unified platforms, and AI-assisted operations. Smart City 3.0, still emerging, points toward predictive resilience, where AI agents, digital twins and autonomous systems help cities anticipate disruption before it happens rather than simply respond to it.

How Technology, Collaboration and Public-Private Partnerships Are Transforming Urban Security

Cities are moving beyond connected infrastructure toward predictive resilience — but AI, public-private data sharing and ubiquitous sensors will only make communities safer when...

Sept. 4, 2026

Security Executives

The Watchman's Chair Is Empty

Sept. 3, 2026

It is New York City; is there much more to say? Large-scale programs for securing IoT and Smart Building Automation Systems did not exist, especially at the municipal level. The challenges were not only technological but also cultural within City agencies. The program would be new to the City.

Security Executives

The Smart City Security Imperative: Lessons from New York's IoT Cyber Defense Program

Sept. 3, 2026

For web apps, we do not expose services directly to the internet without a web application firewall and API protections. GenAI needs an equivalent runtime layer – an inspection and enforcement system that sits in front of models to semantically evaluate prompts and responses.

Artificial Intelligence

When AI Models Become the Supply Chain Attack

Aug. 31, 2026

Operators must now decide how to respond. Decision-making will be expedited by providing cybersecurity standards for them to adopt. Fortunately, best practice standards already exist and have long been used in the nuclear industry. A common architectural baseline, proven methodologies, and compliance accreditation and approval processes are already in place.

Critical Infrastructure

AI Has Changed the Critical Infrastructure Threat Equation

Aug. 26, 2026

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.

Critical Infrastructure

Why Protecting Critical Infrastructure Security Requires a Military Mindset

Aug. 24, 2026

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.

Security Executives

Why Traditional Vulnerability Management Fails in an AI-Enabled Threat Environment

Aug. 19, 2026

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.

Critical Infrastructure

America’s Water Systems Are Still Too Exposed to Cyberattack

Aug. 18, 2026

Security Executives

CMMC Phase 2 Paused; Contractors Must Maintain Readiness

Aug. 5, 2026

Critical Infrastructure

How Technology, Collaboration and Public-Private Partnerships Are Transforming Urban Security

The Watchman's Chair Is Empty

The Smart City Security Imperative: Lessons from New York's IoT Cyber Defense Program

When AI Models Become the Supply Chain Attack

AI Has Changed the Critical Infrastructure Threat Equation

Why Protecting Critical Infrastructure Security Requires a Military Mindset

Why Traditional Vulnerability Management Fails in an AI-Enabled Threat Environment

America’s Water Systems Are Still Too Exposed to Cyberattack

CMMC Phase 2 Paused; Contractors Must Maintain Readiness

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