Critical national infrastructure (CNI)
The systems (power, water, transport, finance) a nation depends on to function.
Critical national infrastructure (CNI) is the set of systems and assets so vital that their disruption would seriously affect a nation's security, economy or public safety, including power, water, transport, communications and financial systems. Protecting CNI means reducing its attack surface, defending it continuously and keeping it running even when connectivity fails.
In practice
Protecting critical national infrastructure is where cyber and physical security meet a nation's daily functioning: power, water, transport, communications and finance. Unstrat helps buyers reduce the attack surface of these systems, defend them continuously, and keep them running even when connectivity fails. The advantage is resilience: infrastructure that keeps serving the public and the mission through disruption rather than collapsing under it. Because these systems are foundational to sovereignty, Unstrat structures the work so the buyer retains control of their own defence rather than depending on an outside party to see incidents first. As the accountable single channel, Unstrat brings the pieces together and stands behind the whole. Localisation arrangements are scoped per programme, subject to export controls and end-use approvals, so protection of essential systems stays firmly in national hands.