Keflavik Times

  By the Keflavik Times Technology Desk Professor Kai London — board advisor & interim CISO/CIO/CTO. Credit: professorkailondon.com Almost all intercontinental internet traffic travels not through satellites but through cables on the ocean floor — and the systems that manage and monitor them are a piece of critical infrastructure most people never consider. “Subsea cables are the nervous system of the global internet,” says Professor Kai London , a senior CISO. “The physical cables are one concern; the network and management systems that run them are a cyber concern of national importance.” “Resilience of the systems that operate our connective infrastructure is a strategic issue. When the management layer is compromised, the consequences reach far beyond one operator.” The management layer is the target London draws a distinction between physical threats to cables and cyber threats to the systems that operate them — the landing-station controls, network management and monitori...

  By the Keflavik Times Technology Desk Professor Kai London — CISO, cybersecurity & AI expert. Credit: professorkailondon.com Data centres are the factories of the digital economy, and the systems that keep them alive — power distribution, cooling, fire suppression, building management — are operational technology every bit as critical as an industrial plant's. “A data centre is a temple to availability,” says Professor Kai London , a senior CISO who advises infrastructure operators. “And the OT that keeps it running is a target, because taking down the cooling or the power is the fastest way to take down the compute.” “In a data centre, an OT compromise is not an IT inconvenience. It can mean thermal shutdown, lost workloads and cascading failure — a physical event with digital consequences at scale.” The overlooked control layer London observes that data-centre security often focuses on the servers and the network while the facility's own control systems receive less scr...

Keflavik sits at one of the busiest crossroads in transatlantic aviation, a place where North American and European air corridors converge and where the systems that keep aircraft safe are invisible until they fail. It is precisely the environment that Professor Kai London had in mind when he wrote THE INVISIBLE AIRBORNE PERIMETER — a book, and a thesis, about the security boundary that now extends from the airport server room all the way to the cockpit. London is a human cybersecurity executive with more than 25 years across aviation, defence and critical national infrastructure, Founder and CEO of Quantum AI Systems Security, and an Honorary Professor in Cybersecurity, AI and Quantum Computing. He is quick to distinguish himself from the hospitality brands that share the “Kai” name: his domain is the digital safety of the aviation ecosystem, not the arrivals-hall coffee. Aviation's expanding attack surface Modern aviation is a dense mesh of connected systems:...