National security is decided less and less often on the battlefield. It plays out in ICT networks, in the information space and at the interface of civilian and military institutions, where the line between an incident and an attack is often unclear and attribution takes weeks. Cybersecurity and resilience to hybrid threats have ceased to be the domain of IT specialists, because an adversary no longer needs to cross a border to cause damage comparable to an act of war.
We have the strategic documents. The question is how to translate them into capabilities that work on a Monday morning. The panel addresses the resilience of infrastructure to cyberattacks, the protection of industrial systems and operators of essential services, and the defence against disinformation and the whole spectrum of hybrid activities that stay below the Article 5 threshold yet cumulatively weaken the state.
We treat artificial intelligence without enthusiasm and without panic. We are interested in where AI already genuinely supports data analysis, imagery intelligence and command processes — and where it remains a promise sold together with a licence. The other side of the equation is just as important: the same tools serve the adversary to generate content, profile targets and scale attacks.