PodChats for FutureCISO: Resilience imperatives for navigating Asia’s poly-crisis

About this episode

The episode discusses the challenges faced by risk engineers in Asia due to a complex interplay of geopolitical and environmental crises.

In 2026, the risk engineer in Asia faces a fractured reality. Geopolitical decoupling has splintered supply chains across Southeast Asia, while simmering South China Sea tensions directly threaten subsea cables—the region’s digital arteries. Concurrently, climate-driven heatwaves stress power grids, collapsing OT systems in manufacturing hubs. The core dilemma is no longer single-peril analysis but the "poly-crisis": ransomware demands spiking as a grid fails, or a sovereign cyber opera...

Topics covered

• resilience
• poly-crisis
• geopolitical decoupling
• supply chains
• climate change
• cybersecurity

Keywords

• resilience
• Asia
• poly-crisis
• supply chains
• geopolitical tensions
• climate change
• cybersecurity

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: OT

Places: Asia, Southeast Asia, South China Sea

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