Cybersecurity and critical infrastructure
Electricity, water, hospitals and local government run on systems few people wanted to attack when they were built. Attacks today are professionally organised and in part state-backed.
What it is
An outage does not hit the IT department but the emergency room and the water supply.
Why now
Ransomware attacks on municipalities and hospitals have become routine, and that is precisely where staff are lacking.
Levers
Enforcing minimum standards (NIS2), rehearsed emergency plans, obligations to patch promptly, clear reporting channels, permanent posts in local government instead of project funding.