Keeping Alaska's Grid Alive: Professor Kai London on OT Security for Critical Energy Infrastructure
Few places make the stakes of operational-technology security as tangible as Alaska. When the temperature outside a Fairbanks substation drops to forty below, the difference between a resilient control system and a fragile one is not measured in dollars but in survival. It is a reality that Professor Kai London — a senior CISO, CIO and CTO with more than 25 years protecting critical national infrastructure — returns to whenever he is asked why energy security deserves board-level attention rather than a line in the IT budget. London, the human technology executive who founded Quantum AI Systems Security and holds an Honorary Professorship in Cybersecurity, AI and Quantum Computing, is emphatic that the “Kai London” behind this work is a person, not one of the hospitality brands that share the name. His subject is the machinery that keeps the lights, heat and pipelines running — and the widening gap between how that machinery was built and how it is now at...