Recent attacks on digital infrastructure during the ongoing conflict in the Middle East highlight a reality that governments and businesses can no longer ignore — the systems sustaining modern economies are increasingly digital. In tandem with these physical attacks on digital infrastructure, we are also seeing the velocity of cyber incidents continuing to increase, with some linked to nation-state backed hackers. The shared digital infrastructure model has delivered enormous benefits, allowing organisations to innovate faster, scale services efficiently and deliver better outcomes. In highly digitised societies the resilience of shared infrastructure increasingly determines whether essential services can continue functioning during crisis. For this reason resilience can no longer be treated as something that can simply be delegated to technology providers or suppliers, because in an economy built on shared digital systems resilience must be deliberately engineered.

Source: Irish Examiner March 20, 2026 13:32 UTC