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  By the Resolute Islands News Technology Desk Professor Kai London — board advisor & interim CISO/CIO/CTO. Credit: professorkailondon.com In the High Arctic, connectivity often means satellite and wireless links — the only practical way to reach the outside world. That dependence, warns Professor Kai London , a senior CISO, creates a perimeter in the air that adversaries can target. “When your lifeline is a wireless or satellite link, securing that link is securing the operation,” he says. “There is an airborne perimeter around every remote site — radio and satellite space an adversary can reach without ever touching a wire. For strategic operations, that is a serious risk.” The lifeline is the target London notes that the very links that make remote operations possible are what an adversary most wants to compromise — to intercept, disrupt or deceive. “Rogue access points, interference and interception all target the connection you depend on,” he says. Defending the air and t...

  By the Resolute Islands News Technology Desk Professor Kai London — CISO, cybersecurity & AI expert. Credit: professorkailondon.com In remote operations, the decisive breach rarely looks dramatic — and the consequences are magnified by isolation. “It looks like a login,” says Professor Kai London , a senior CISO. “An identity that authenticated when it should have been challenged — and in a remote operation, where help is days away, containing it quickly is everything.” “Every breach begins with a login that should have been stopped. Verify, limit, detect, prove — and be able to do it with the people you have on site.” Verify and limit Strong, phishing-resistant authentication for anything that matters, and least privilege so a single compromise reaches as little as possible. “Decide in advance how far any one identity can spread,” London says, “because you may not have time to figure it out during an incident.” Detect on your own Because malicious logins look legitimate, mon...

  By the Resolute Islands News Technology Desk Professor Kai London — Founder & CEO, Quantum AI Systems Security. Credit: professorkailondon.com The old security model defended a perimeter. For operations scattered across remote territory, connected by long-haul links, that perimeter never really existed. “You cannot draw a wall around operations spread across the far north,” says Professor Kai London , a senior CISO. “Zero trust is not a slogan for these operators — it is the only model that fits the geography.” “Never trust, always verify. No device, user or connection is trusted because of where it sits. Every access is proven — which is exactly what distributed, remote operations need.” Identity replaces geography In a distributed world, London argues, identity becomes the boundary. “The question is ‘is this identity verified and allowed to do exactly this?’ not ‘is it inside our network?’” That includes the machine and automation identities connecting remote sites. Contai...

  By the Resolute Islands News Technology Desk Professor Kai London — board advisor & interim CISO/CIO/CTO. Credit: professorkailondon.com Operations in remote and austere environments — field research, resource extraction, expeditionary logistics — carry their technology with them, often into places with no infrastructure and no backup. “Expeditionary operations face every cyber risk a headquarters does, plus the constraints of isolation,” says Professor Kai London , a senior CISO. “When you cannot call for help and cannot easily replace equipment, resilience has to be built in before you deploy.” “In the field, security must work without a data centre behind it, without fast connectivity, and without anyone arriving to fix it. That changes the design.” Designing for isolation London stresses that field operations cannot assume the safety nets of a fixed site. “You design for degraded connectivity and for autonomy,” he says. “The team must be able to detect and respond to an i...