Critical systems
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OT confidence outpaces industrial asset visibility
A Honeywell survey found 88% of industrial security leaders described their OT programmes as mature, while only 21% reported complete operational-technology asset inventories.
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IBM buys Logiq for UK security work
IBM has acquired NCSC-assured Logiq Consulting, adding specialist UK defence, critical-infrastructure, Secure by Design, and sovereign-technology capabilities.
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UK defence suppliers face December cyber deadline
UK defence suppliers are approaching a 31 December deadline for baseline Defence Cyber Certification, including Cyber Essentials for applicable business-critical systems.
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Civo starts 40-site UK edge build
Civo has begun fitting out the first of 40 planned UK edge data centres, proposing a one-gigawatt network for sovereign AI inference and distributed compute.
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Hospital database overwrite tests recovery controls
Police are examining how Nottingham University Hospitals maternity records were overwritten during routine technical work, with recovery efforts and the full scale of data loss still unresolved.
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UK plans national information defence centre
The UK government has ordered work on a National Centre for Information Defence while separately developing a US partnership applying AI and autonomy to critical-infrastructure defence.
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Attackers compromise 996 Zyxel switches
GreyNoise says an attacker compromised 996 Zyxel GS1900 switches across 48 countries through CVE-2026-7273, a vulnerability Zyxel patched in June.
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ENISA maps Europe’s cyber dependency risk
ENISA’s 2026 threat landscape puts ransomware, geopolitical activity, and shared digital dependencies at the centre of a European threat environment concentrated heavily on essential and important organisations.
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Dragos closes runZero and NetRise acquisitions
Dragos has completed its runZero and NetRise acquisitions after Accenture’s majority investment, expanding from OT security into asset discovery and software supply-chain visibility.
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Switzerland plans post-quantum security centre
WISeKey, SEALSQ, and the Canton of Jura have signed an MoU for a proposed CHF40–60 million semiconductor and post-quantum cybersecurity centre.