Financial markets appear seamless: prices update in real time, trades execute instantly, and capital moves with speed and precision. But beneath that experience is a concentrated and highly interdependent infrastructure layer that makes modern markets possible.

Governing powerful technologies under uncertainty requires making bets. The question is not whether to bet. It is whether the bet you are making is calibrated to the actual risk.

As emphasized in President Trump’s Cyber Strategy for America, the transition to PQC must begin immediately. While extensive federal guidance exists, urgent action from Congress and executive agencies is needed to allocate the necessary resources, improve preparedness, and drive adoption across critical infrastructure. The report’s recommendations provide a framework for achieving national PQC resilience.

This is the second in a series of articles examining the security implications of AI-driven vulnerability discovery. The first addressed the engineering foundation. This one addresses the operational reality. This one addresses how organizations must operate from where they actually are, which for most is not a clean, well-architected starting point but rather decades of accumulated technical decisions that were never evaluated through a security engineering lens.

ICIT Welcomes Mrs. Venice Goodwine, CIO & AI Product Owner, Arlo Solutions Inc. , Board Member, CORAS AI International Executive Committee Member, Armed Forces Communication and Electronic Association (AFCEA), as a New ICIT Fellow.

For decades, the approach to building technology has operated on an implicit assumption that security could be addressed after the fact...This created an environment in which building technology that simply worked was sufficient, and the cost of building technology that was engineered to be secure was treated as an unnecessary burden on development timelines and budgets... The capabilities demonstrated by recent advances in artificial intelligence have fundamentally altered t

The Mythos moment is significant for reasons that extend beyond its immediate cybersecurity implications. It establishes, with unusual clarity, that AI capability has crossed a threshold in the offensive domain — and that the defensive and governance infrastructure available to most institutions has not kept pace. That gap is not a projected risk. It is a present condition.

Enterprises, large and small, are under significant pressure to leverage AI capabilities to fundamentally improve business opportunities by both lowering operating costs and driving business growth. Critical path for agent deployment at scale includes a fundamental redesign of identity security capabilities.

Acquisition reform returns as a familiar Washington ritual, yet change is often only seen at the margins. The task at hand has simply been too monumental to effectively revamp the entire system: Reforming how the Pentagon buys alone isn’t enough, any meaningful transformation depends on revitalizing the industrial base, strengthening supply chain security, giving industry the capital and demand certainty to invest, requirements-setting, and sustained workforce development and

War has always targeted infrastructure. In conflict, the systems that sustain an adversary's ability to operate are identified and acted upon. In a digitally dependent society, data centers sit at the center of those systems. As the cybersecurity community gathers this week for the RSA Conference, the systems that support our digital world warrant closer attention.

ICIT Welcomes Will Markow, Founder & CEO of FourOne Insights as a New ICIT Fellow

Explore how Iran’s expanding cyber operations are reshaping national security risk for governments and critical infrastructure. This perspective outlines evolving tactics—from disruptive attacks to long-term espionage—and what leaders must do now to prepare for escalating cyber conflict.

Examine how U.S. and PRC approaches to post-quantum cryptography (PQC) and quantum key distribution (QKD) reveal divergent risk strategies for protecting critical infrastructure. This ICIT perspective explores why relying solely on PQC may leave Tier-1 systems exposed—and whether a defense-in-depth model is needed for the quantum era.

Discover why U.S. drone dominance depends on three interconnected pillars—policy, production, and protection. In this SC Media perspective, Brett Freedman explains how strengthening regulatory frameworks, scaling industrial capacity, and advancing counter-drone defenses are essential to maintaining national security and protecting critical infrastructure in the age of drone warfare.

As drone warfare reshapes global conflict, the U.S. industrial base is falling behind—exposing tactical gaps, supply risks, and strategic vulnerabilities that demand urgent investment and policy response.

ICIT welcomes Michael R. Centrella, former U.S. Secret Service Assistant Director and security executive, as a new ICIT Fellow advancing cyber and infrastructure resilience.

In this latest SC Media perspective, ICIT CEO Cory Simpson highlights the tension that defines this moment: while global competition, cyber threats, and climate disruptions create a sense of breakdown, the quiet work of building better, more resilient infrastructure is reshaping the foundations of everyday life.

As AI systems and LEO satellite networks scale, quantum risk grows. Dr. David Mussington, ICIT Fellow outlines why post-quantum cryptography must be embedded now — not retrofitted later — to secure the infrastructure of the 2030s.

ICIT CEO Cory Simpson lays out why infrastructure investment drives affordability—strengthening energy, water, transport, and digital systems to reduce long-term costs and improve resilience.

The ICIT Strategic Partner Webcast “Why Trust and Data Integrity Are the Cornerstones of AI for the Public Sector” is now available to watch. This timely discussion explores how agencies can operationalize transparency, governance, and secure data practices to deploy AI systems that are resilient, accountable, and mission-ready.