October supplied a well timed reminder of the fragility of the UK’s digital sovereignty.
The Amazon Net Companies (AWS) outage — which took down companies at HMRC, main monetary establishments, and even Premier League VAR — was not merely a technical glitch. It was a wake-up name.
Equally, the cyberattack on JLR underlined how deeply the UK’s bodily financial system is now linked to its digital foundations. When a single cyber incident can sluggish manufacturing and disrupt commerce, the road between digital and industrial resilience begins to blur.
Collectively, these moments spotlight a broader fact: the UK’s digital future is interdependent, however not but resilient. When important nationwide companies depend on infrastructure owned and operated abroad, the problem is now not nearly know-how. It’s about strategic autonomy….
