Attacks on critical infrastructure: Lebanon
Lebanon's power, water and transport systems are already fragile under economic strain, and their disruption from physical or cyber attack would deepen a difficult situation. Keeping these lifelines running is essential to daily life and public confidence. Resilience of essential services is a national priority the country cannot defer.
Protecting fragile lifelines
Defending Lebanon's critical infrastructure means hardening the control systems that run power, water and transport, defending the networks around them, and countering the drone threat above them. Infrastructure hardening secures the industrial control systems themselves, defensive cyber protection guards the surrounding networks continuously, and counter-UAS layers address the small aircraft that can reach a sensitive site cheaply. Together they help keep essential services running when they are under pressure.
Resilience under economic strain
Lebanon's utilities are already stretched, which makes any deliberate disruption disproportionately damaging and recovery harder. Because these are civilian systems that must keep operating, the defensive layers have to protect availability and continuity, not just detect intrusion. Prioritising the most critical nodes lets a constrained state focus protection where an attack would do the most harm, rather than attempting to defend everything at once.
How engagement works in Lebanon
Unstrat represents the hardening, cyber and counter-drone makers directly as an independent, non-aligned prime vendor, giving Lebanon one accountable team for a layered defence. Systems are supplied end-use certified with sovereign-controlled encryption, and defensive operations are designed to be run by Lebanese personnel with in-region sustainment. Non-aligned sourcing keeps the defence of Lebanon's essential services answerable to Lebanon alone.
Defending fragile lifelines with what matters most
The engagement begins with a briefing on power, water and transport systems already stretched by economic strain, so the layered defence is focused on the nodes where an attack would do the most harm. Export-control clearance and end-use confirmation come before any representation, so Lebanon deals with one accountable team behind the hardening, cyber and counter-drone makers. Capability is matched to the operator's real conditions (the control systems in service, the networks around them, the drone threat above them), so the defence protects availability and continuity rather than merely detecting intrusion, giving a constrained state a real advantage. Sustainment is phased in-region so Lebanese personnel run the defence themselves, with localisation arrangements scoped per programme, subject to export controls and end-use approvals, keeping the mission answerable to Lebanon alone.
Relevant capability
Critical infrastructure resilience
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Monitoring and incident response
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Layered defence against the drone threat
Capability page →Adjacent priorities in Lebanon
Ministries, registries and national databases are under continuous attack from criminal and state-linked actors. Around-the-clock defensive operations, authorised red-teaming and architectures for disconnected environments protect the systems a state runs on, accountable to your government, not a foreign one.
Problem pageCheap unmanned aircraft now threaten airports, energy sites, borders and public events in every region. Layered counter-UAS, combining detection radar tuned to small slow targets, passive sensing and defeat systems, is the affordable answer recent conflicts demand.
Problem pageTapping, bunkering and sabotage of oil infrastructure drain national revenue and cause environmental damage. Persistent overhead surveillance detects illegal connections and vessel movements, while control-system hardening protects the pipeline network itself.
Problem pageRelevant solutions
Power, water, transport and port systems assessed, hardened and watched continuously, by a team with no foreign government to report the findings to.
Solution page →Layered defence against hostile unmanned aircraft: detection, tracking and defeat priced for the mass threat rather than a missile economy that empties the magazine first.
Solution page →Lebanon: security context
Lebanon's priorities cluster around its approaches and its networks: coastal and border monitoring against illicit movement, protection of critical infrastructure under strain, and the security of communications. It is an environment where limited resources place a premium on capability that is affordable to operate and sustain.
An accountable single-channel engagement gives Lebanon a coherent counterpart for that capability, coastal and border monitoring, infrastructure protection and communications security. A security agency gains end-use certified, affordable-to-sustain equipment and localisation arrangements scoped per programme, subject to export controls and end-use approvals.
About this challenge
Power grids, water systems and transport networks face both physical and cyber attack. Hardening the control systems behind them, defending the networks around them and countering the drone threat above them keeps essential services running under pressure.
Frequently asked questions
Why does Lebanon need layered infrastructure protection?
Because power, water and transport face physical, cyber and drone threats at once, and any disruption is disproportionately damaging to already-fragile systems. Combining hardening, network defence and counter-UAS keeps essential services running. A briefing can prioritise the layers for your sites.
How does economic strain shape the approach?
With utilities already stretched, protection focuses on the most critical nodes where an attack would do the most harm, and on keeping services available rather than merely detecting intrusions.
Who operates the defensive systems?
Lebanese personnel do. Capability is delivered end-use certified with keys held nationally and sustained in-region, so the defence of essential services is Lebanese-run rather than dependent on an outside contractor.