Sector & National Resilience

Public concern over the fragility of essential services is growing, piling pressure on governments, regulators, and sector bodies to make meaningful change. Recent positive initiatives, including the EU’s Critical Entities Resilience (CER) Directive, ISO’s upcoming infrastructure resilience standard, and the UK’s proposed Cyber and Resilience Bill, all show there is a renewed focus on public sector leadership in setting strategic direction.

National governments play a crucial role in shaping infrastructure resilience. No private sector organisation or sector-specific body   can address the complex interdependencies across critical national infrastructure by themselves. This role can only be played by central governments and requires innovative policy and creative new approaches.

For individual sectors, effective resilience strategies rely on understanding both critical supply-demand relationships and the unique technical complexities of each sector. Often, it’s the interaction between these two elements which makes building resilience across that sector uniquely challenging.