Seismic Shifts, Solar Storms & Sapphire Screens

Our communications infrastructure is surprisingly robust in supporting the weight of applications and traffic that we are placing on it. Yet, throughout the stack, from the seabed to the skies, it is increasingly under threat from geopolitical events,  bolder and more creative hacktivists and cyber criminals, inadvertent or careless accidents, and ecological events beyond our control. We are ill-prepared for any one of these alone, and the outages of recent months are stark reminders of the economic, social, and national security domino effects as these risks converge. As we increase our digital dependence, we need a better approach to visualising the potential impacts of these risks and a new model of rapidly implementable resilience planning so that our infrastructure can carry the weight of our innovation dreams.