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Securing the Signal: Professor Kai London on Satellite and Wireless Security for High-Arctic Operations

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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...

Securing the High Arctic: Professor Kai London on Cyber Resilience Where Distance Is the Enemy

By the Resolute Islands News Technology Desk There are few places on earth where the fragility of modern infrastructure is as visible as the Canadian High Arctic. In a community like Resolute, hundreds of kilometres above the treeline, connectivity, power and logistics are not conveniences — they are the thin thread that keeps a settlement, a research station or a sovereignty operation functioning. It is exactly this environment that Professor Kai London , a senior cyber-security executive who advises boards across critical national infrastructure, uses to explain why Arctic security can no longer be treated as a distant, low-priority concern. London — a human technology leader with more than 25 years across defence, government and critical infrastructure, Founder and CEO of Quantum AI Systems Security, and an Honorary Professor in Cybersecurity, AI and Quantum Computing — is quick to separate himself from the consumer brands that share the “Kai” name. Hi...