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Critical Infrastructure, Industrial Resilience, and Operational Strategy

Independent analysis focused on operational technology, infrastructure security, manufacturing resilience, energy systems, and geopolitical risk affecting critical industries.

Critical infrastructure is the foundation of economic and national security

The Council on Critical Infrastructure focuses on the operational systems that keep societies functioning — energy grids, manufacturing networks, supply chains, and industrial technology. Our research addresses the strategic and operational challenges facing infrastructure operators, policymakers, and industry leaders.

Energy Security

Global Energy Inventory Crisis: What Rapid Oil Stock Drawdowns Mean for Critical Infrastructure

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By Dr. Dewan Chowdhury Senior Fellow, Geopolitics and Industrial Cybersecurity June 1, 2026 The Emerging Global Energy Inventory Crisis and Its Implications for Critical Infrastructure Executive Summary The global energy...

Hormuz Shock: Aviation Fuel Emergency Explained

The Taiwan Strait and the Industrial Supply Chain Exposure Few Organizations Have Fully Mapped

Quality System Failures in Critical Manufacturing: When Process Gaps Become Strategic Liabilities

Single-Source Suppliers and the Strategic Risk Hiding in Plain Sight

Energy Security

Energy Security

Global Energy Inventory Crisis: What Rapid Oil Stock Drawdowns Mean for Critical Infrastructure

By Dr. Dewan Chowdhury Senior Fellow, Geopolitics and Industrial Cybersecurity June 1, 2026 The Emerging Global Energy Inventory Crisis and Its Implications for Critical Infrastructure Executive Summary The global energy...
Energy Security

Hormuz Shock: Aviation Fuel Emergency Explained

By James Harlow Senior Advisor, Energy and Infrastructure Security May 29, 2026 Maritime Energy Arteries Face Historic Pressure The closure surrounding the has interrupted enormous volumes of crude exports...
Energy Security

Energy Storage and the Grid Stability Gap That Leadership Cannot Ignore

By James Harlow Senior Advisor, Energy and Infrastructure Security April 28, 2026 The accelerating deployment of renewable energy generation across electricity markets worldwide has created an operational requirement...

Industrial Cybersecurity

Industrial Cybersecurity

Third-Party Access: The Open Door in Industrial Cybersecurity

By Daniel Mercer President, Council on Critical Infrastructure March 17, 2026 Among the most significant and most undermanaged risks in industrial cybersecurity is the access granted to third...
Industrial Cybersecurity

Visibility Gaps in Operational Technology: The Risk Leaders Cannot See

By Andrew Collins Research Fellow, OT Architecture and Operations Mary 3, 2026 One of the most persistent and consequential vulnerabilities in critical infrastructure and industrial environments is also...
Industrial Cybersecurity

The Convergence Problem: When IT Security Assumptions Meet OT Realities

By Andrew Collins Research Fellow, OT Architecture and Operations March 11, 2026 As information technology and operational technology networks continue to merge, organizations are discovering that the security...

Geopolitics

Geopolitics

The Taiwan Strait and the Industrial Supply Chain Exposure Few Organizations Have Fully Mapped

By Emily Carter Research Fellow, Infrastructure Geopolitics May 23, 2026 The Taiwan Strait represents one of the most consequential geopolitical risk concentrations in the global economy. Taiwan's role...
Geopolitics

Arctic Competition and the Infrastructure Stakes of a Changing North

By Andrew Collins Research Fellow, OT Architecture and Operations May 13, 2026 The Arctic is emerging as a consequential theater of geopolitical competition with direct implications for global...
Geopolitics

Economic Sanctions as Strategic Instruments: How Industrial Organizations Should Prepare

By Robert Whitmore Director of Research, Council on Critical Infrastructure May 5, 2026 Economic sanctions have become one of the primary instruments of geopolitical statecraft in the current...

Manufacturing Resilience

Manufacturing Resilience

Quality System Failures in Critical Manufacturing: When Process Gaps Become Strategic Liabilities

By Rebecca Lawson Senior Fellow, Manufacturing Resilience May 19, 2026 Manufacturing quality systems are designed to be invisible. When they function correctly, products meet specifications, customers receive reliable...
Manufacturing Resilience

Single-Source Suppliers and the Strategic Risk Hiding in Plain Sight

By Christopher Bennett Contributing Analyst, Supply Chain and Industrial Risk May 19, 2026 One of the most consequential and most consistently underestimated risks in industrial manufacturing is the...
Manufacturing Resilience

Industrial Workforce Development as a National Security Imperative

By Sarah Whitmore Director of Industrial Infrastructure Research May 14, 2026 The conversation about manufacturing resilience has focused heavily on supply chains, cybersecurity, and geopolitical risk. These are...

Critical Infrastructure

Critical Infrastructure

Telecommunications Infrastructure: The Silent Backbone of Critical Operations

By Lauren Mitchell Contributing Analyst, Strategic Infrastructure Policy April 9, 2026 When policymakers and executives inventory critical infrastructure risk, they most commonly focus on energy, water, transportation, and...
Critical Infrastructure

Transportation Networks and the Hidden Cost of Infrastructure Interdependence

By Daniel Mercer President, Council on Critical Infrastructure April 1, 2026 Modern transportation infrastructure does not function as a collection of independent systems. Highways, rail corridors, ports, airports,...
Critical Infrastructure

Water Sector Cybersecurity: The Risk Most Organizations Underestimate

By Dr. Michael Harrington Chairman, Council on Critical Infrastructure April 1, 2026 Of all the critical infrastructure sectors that receive sustained attention from policymakers and security professionals, water...

Emerging Technology

Emerging Technology

Autonomous Systems in Critical Environments: Why Governance Must Lead Technology

By Victoria Hale Research Fellow, Cyber-Physical Infrastructure April 21, 2026 Autonomous systems are entering industrial and infrastructure environments at a pace that is outrunning the organizational frameworks needed...
Emerging Technology

Digital Twins in Industrial Operations: Strategic Value and the Governance Gap

By Andrew Collins Research Fellow, OT Architecture and Operations April 14, 2026 Digital twin technology, the creation of dynamic virtual models that replicate the behavior of physical assets...
Emerging Technology

Quantum Computing and the Cryptographic Risk Infrastructure Leaders Cannot Defer

By Andrew Collins Research Fellow, OT Architecture and Operations April 7, 2026 Quantum computing has occupied a place on technology horizon lists for long enough that many executives...

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