Securing Nations

Building Country-Level
Cyber Resilience

ThingsRecon creates a living map of a nation’s digital ecosystem,
from Critical National Infrastructure to supply chain dependencies
and active threat actors.

the national challenge

Cyber Resilience Is Now a National Imperative

Risk has outgrown organisational boundaries. Nations lack real-time visibility into the digital supply chains that underpin their Critical National Infrastructure.

Invisible Attack Surface

Nations have no unified visibility into the digital ecosystems that power energy, transport, telecoms, and government services. Each sector an unseen risk.

Fragmented Defences

National Cyber Agencies operate without unified tools to assess, monitor, and remediate ecosystem-wide risk across sectors. Each ministry is an island.

Escalating Threat Landscape

State-sponsored and criminal actors target supply chain dependencies, exploiting the weakest links in national digital infrastructure. Cascading impact follows.

all things cyber: epidode 5

The connections that hold a country together.

Robin de Vries and Steph Konarkowski are joined by David Smith, national cyber defense practitioner at BAE Systems, who has spent 17 years responding to incidents and advising governments and CNI organizations.

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A supply chain attack in Montenegro caused the entire education system to shut down

because they were no longer able to pay the electricity bills. That is the real-world impact of CNI attacks. It’s about the functioning of society.

David Smith

Regional Lead Consultant

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BAE Systems Digital Intelligence

What We Deliver

Three Intelligence Layers
No Other Platform Combines

For State Department and embassy officials, ThingsRecon provides country-scale visibility across the full digital ecosystem, supply chain, and active threat landscape.

layer 1
layer 2
layer 3

Full Digital Ecosystem Mapping

The complete picture of every organisation's domains, IPs, APIs, cloud services, scripts, and how they interconnect across an entire nation.

Country-level CNI footprint across all sectors

Energy, transport, telecoms, water, government

Continuous discovery without in-country infrastructure

Supply Chain Dependency & Concentration Risk

Identify where critical suppliers, technologies, and services create single points of failure. Surface hidden concentration risks and foreign technology dependencies.

3rd and 4th party vendor mapping

Geopolitical risk: embedded foreign technology

Single points of failure identification

Active Threat Intelligence Overlay

Real-time threat actor data mapped against the national infrastructure. Not generic feeds — contextualised intelligence showing who is actively targeting each sector.

Threat actors mapped to specific CNI sectors

Regional threat landscape analysis

Contextualised intelligence for diplomatic briefings

Phase 1 | Months 1 – 6

Discover & Baseline

Map the national digital ecosystem and supply chain dependencies

Establish baseline risk posture across priority CNI sectors

Deploy ThingsRecon platform with zero in-country infrastructure

Deliver initial country enablement training

Phase 2 | Months 6 – 18

Strengthen & Monitor

Activate continuous monitoring with monthly risk reporting

Execute structured remediation workflows for critical findings

Expand sector coverage to additional CNI verticals

Embed programme within National Cyber Agency operations

Phase 3 | Months 18 – 36

Scale & Sustain

Scale to full national coverage across all priority sectors

Transition to self-sustaining country-level operations

Provide advanced threat intelligence and trend analysis

Establish multi-country programme coordination

The Program

12 – 36 Month Resilience Program

A structured three-phase model designed to take a country from zero visibility to self-sustaining cyber resilience.

Proven Deployments

The Balkans Program

Two countries. Two different starting points. The same model — from zero visibility to full national coverage, operational in weeks.

Country A
Building from the Ground Up

Critical National Infrastructure spanned hundreds of organisations across energy, telecoms, transport, and government — yet no unified view existed across their collective digital exposure. The National Cyber Agency had no tools, processes, or capacity to assess ecosystem-wide risk. The program delivered that capability in full, from discovery through to operational embedding.

Zero to National Visibility in Weeks

No in-country infrastructure required. The platform operates entirely outside-in, from anywhere in the world.

Entity-Level Reporting Architecture

Every ministry and agency receives its own view. One unified project. Full oversight at the national level.

Country B
Rapid Government-Wide Coverage

This nation had already experienced the consequences of a supply chain attack cascading through critical infrastructure. Speed was non-negotiable. The program secured ministerial approval and achieved government-wide scanning coverage within four weeks — with every ministry receiving its own filtered view of findings from day one.

Ministerial Approval to Full Coverage

From first government engagement to nationwide scanning in under four weeks. Proven across both deployments.

Immediately Replicable

Standardised training materials, SOPs, and deployment playbooks ready for the next country from day one.

National Exposure Platform

A Turnkey National Resilience Platform

The first platform at scale delivering real-time, country-level insight into national cyber resilience — without requiring local knowledge, technology, or intelligence capabilities.

Country Enablement

Structured training for users in each country ensures successful adoption and long-term program effectiveness.

CNI Protection

Purpose-built to support Critical National Infrastructure protection and strengthen visibility across digital ecosystems.

Continuous Monitoring

Monthly reporting, clear risk visibility, and structured remediation workflows to track and reduce exposure over time.

Zero Local Burden

No dedicated in-country technical resources required, enabling seamless deployment and scaling across multiple countries.

Nations Dashboard

Supply Chain Concentration Analysis

ThingsRecon Global Security Intelligence provides a real-time view of critical national infrastructure cyber risk across monitored countries worldwide. Suppliers are ranked by how many CNI organizations depend on them, where high concentration = single point of failure risk.

CNI Cyber Risk — Global Monitoring
7
Countries
245
Organisations
245
Need action
390
Unique suppliers
0
Critical (>70%)
4
High (>40%)
35
CNI orgs
#
Supplier
Concentration
%
CNIs
Sectors
1
CP-A
Cloud Provider Alpha
CloudIdentity
69%
24 / 35
Defence, Banking, Mining
2
CP-B
Cloud Provider Beta
AICloud
54%
19 / 35
Defence, Banking
3
CP-C
Cloud Provider Gamma
CloudStorage
51%
18 / 35
Defence, Banking
4
CDN
CDN Security Provider
CDNDDoS
43%
15 / 35
Defence, Telecoms
5
FTV
Foreign Telecom Vendor
5G
34%
12 / 35
Telecoms
6
DTG
Defence Technology Group
C4ISR
29%
10 / 35
Defence
Key takeaway
In this case, a single provider compromise, whether through cyberattack, sanctions, or service disruption, would cascade simultaneously across energy, banking, transport, and government systems.

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