Emerging Threats against CI and Critical Entities

March 17, 2027 9:00 am - 10:30 am

Polycrisis: Maintaining Critical Infrastructure Resilience Against Simultaneous Threats

Chris Dietz Critical Infrastructure Analyst / Idaho National Laboratory

This session looks at the latest and emerging threats, such as terrorism, insider threats, climate-related events, cyberattacks and emerging AI-enabled risks and how the threat environment is evolving, creating the conditions for a polycrisis: multiple concurrent or cascading crises whose combined impacts exceed those of individual events. Understanding such threats helps strengthen intelligence-led preparedness, resilience and response capabilities.