Category: Security & Resilience
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Critical National Infrastructure Civil-Military Cooperation September 2026 By Stephen Hermanson Introduction My previous blog (Design Basis Threat and the Threshold Gap) about the MI5 Director General’s call for government, business and academia to treat national security as a shared endeavour generated significant interest. Given the level of traction, there appears to be more appetite for…
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MI5 has called for national security to become a shared endeavour. But CNI operators already work to a formal ceiling on what they must withstand alone — Design Basis Threat — and no one has a protocol for the gap above it, as the Jaguar Land Rover attack showed.
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A practical, tested 90-day framework for standing up a new threat intelligence, security public policy and government relations team for critical national infrastructure — covering role administration, team fundamentals, and internal and external stakeholder engagement.
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Public Policy teams occupy a structural role not unlike 2nd Line Assurance in risk management — close enough to understand the business, distant enough to challenge it. Drawing on John Sinden’s framing, this post explores the tightrope, the value, and the lessons from building a Security Influence function.
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Drawing on a WEF cybersecurity debate and public policy theory, this post examines how to bring cybersecurity regulation to the policy agenda, ensure successful interventions, and evaluate outcomes.
