SolarWinds: When a Trusted Supplier Becomes an Entry Point
Historical case · December 2020. A lesson in dependencies, visibility and the scope of recovery.
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Historical case · December 2020. A lesson in dependencies, visibility and the scope of recovery.
Estonia: Availability Becomes a National Security Issue
Coordinated disruption of public services made national resilience a shared responsibility.
Stuxnet: The Integrity of the Physical Process
Industrial control security must examine what machinery does, not only what a workstation reports.
Ukraine’s 2015 Power Grid Attack: Defending the Operator’s Ability to Act
The response boundary includes operational control, communications and the people restoring service.
Industroyer: When Legitimate Industrial Protocols Become the Attack Surface
Process-aware detection matters when hostile activity resembles ordinary control traffic.
OPM: Personnel Data as a Long-Term Security Asset
A personnel-data breach can create exposure that cannot be fixed by resetting a password.
The Bundestag Intrusion: Protecting an Institution’s Working Memory
Parliamentary communications combine confidentiality, continuity and public trust.
WannaCry and the NHS: A Known Technical Risk Becomes a Service Crisis
Patch governance succeeds only when operational dependencies and exception handling are real.
NotPetya: Destructive Risk Across Interconnected Organisations
A national crisis can become a global recovery problem through ordinary business dependencies.
Olympic Destroyer: Resilience Against a Fixed Deadline
When the event cannot be postponed, service continuity must be designed before the incident.
The Disrupted OPCW Operation: Physical Proximity and Cyber Defence
A prevented operation shows why protective security and network defence need to work together.
KA-SAT: Communications Depend on the Management Plane
Satellite connectivity can fail through supporting infrastructure rather than an attack on a spacecraft.
Albania: Destructive Cyber Operations Against Government Services
Digital government recovery requires both technical restoration and credible public communication.