2014 Full Year Results

Daisy Abbott, Vice President of Impact & Advisory at Unmind, discusses how organisations can future-proof performance by building workforce resilience, adopting preventative wellbeing strategies and leveraging technology to support employees through continual change.

We recently trialled our BAE Systems Anti Threat System (BATS) capability in Scotland, which demonstrated how the system can bring together sensors, intelligence, command and control, and effectors to counter evolving uncrewed threats.

As governments confront growing geopolitical uncertainty, technology concentration and supply chain dependence, how can they build resilient digital nations while maintaining control over critical capabilities?

There is a lot of discussion about the agentic SOC (Security Operations Centre). Increasingly capable AI agents can investigate alerts, gather context, use tools and potentially act without an analyst manually driving every step.

Every day, the digital systems and services we rely on to run our lives work quietly in the background. Salaries get paid, water flows from our taps, transport networks run, hospitals treat patients. We rarely notice these systems until they fail. When they do, the impact often reaches far beyond any individual sector.

Helios is transforming how the UK identifies and responds to security threats at the border. Developed through close collaboration with the Home Office and Border Force, the programme has replaced a 30-year-old capability with a modern, resilient platform that improves data sharing, accelerates decision-making and strengthens the protection of the UK’s national infrastructure.

As cyber threats evolve in scale, sophistication and speed, cybersecurity professionals are being asked to rethink how they approach resilience. The challenge is no longer simply about managing risk. Increasingly, it is about building and sustaining the capability needed to compete in an ongoing contest. I recently spoke at the National Cyber Awards and reflected on what organisations around the world can learn from those operating on the frontline of cyber conflict.

The protection of critical undersea infrastructure (CUI) has moved rapidly up the strategic agenda. With greater dependence on seabed cables for energy and communications, the vulnerability of these assets has become a significant concern.

In today’s increasingly volatile geopolitical climate, particularly with escalating global tensions such as ongoing conflicts in the Middle East, cyber warfare has evolved into a critical extension of traditional warfare.