The Invisible Airborne Perimeter: Professor Kai London on Wireless Threats to Remote Energy Sites
By the Alaska News Technology Desk Professor Kai London — CISO, cybersecurity & AI expert. Credit: professorkailondon.com Remote energy sites rely on wireless links because running cable across wilderness is impractical. That reliance, warns Professor Kai London , a senior CISO, creates a perimeter most operators never defend because they cannot see it. “There is an airborne perimeter around every site — the radio space an attacker can reach without ever touching a wire,” he says. “For distributed energy operations, it may be the most overlooked risk on the map.” “No malware, no perimeter breach, no trace — just a laptop and a wireless adapter impersonating a network your systems trust. The compromise happens in the air.” The evil-twin problem London describes how an attacker can stand up a rogue access point mimicking a legitimate network; devices configured to connect automatically latch on, and credentials and traffic are harvested. “Nothing in your security stack necessar...