In this podcast, Sneha Nichols‑Dawda, Crisis and Security Strategy Consultant at AnotherDay, a Gallagher company, discusses risks related to digital infrastructure and cybersecurity, particularly in the context of geopolitics and corporate espionage. Sneha explains how digital infrastructure is defined, explores its interconnections with physical infrastructure risks, and shares strategies for organisations to protect themselves in today’s volatile threat landscape.

Key Discussion Points

• Digital infrastructure as a target: the ways in which states and threat actors are targeting digital infrastructure to carry out espionage, subterfuge and disruption – and the motivations behind the attacks.
• Evaluating the supply chain: how businesses need to manage their supply chain, why it’s important to understand the ‘technology stack’ and what redundancy looks like at each step in the chain.
• Corporate espionage: the importance of knowing who’s managing your IT stack in order to protect sensitive data and critical infrastructure.
• The fallout from an attack: what the financial and, often overlooked, psychological impacts an attack can have on an organisation.
• The wider geopolitical battle for influence: how digital infrastructure projects are being used by global superpowers as diplomatic tools of influence in emerging markets.
• Maintaining business as usual: what organisations can do to shore up their defences in a volatile geopolitical environment, and from corporate espionage.
• The growing role of artificial intelligence: how AI might shape the future of cybersecurity, from both an offensive and defensive perspective.