Canada’s Warning on Critical Infrastructure Threats Underscores a Growing North American Challenge

**Executive summary:** The report relays a Canadian government warning that nation-state and organized criminal actors are escalating attacks on critical infrastructure (power, water, health, finance, transportation), stressing exposed ICS/OT systems, permissive remote access, weak/default credentials, extended patch windows, and supply-chain risks; it urges improved external visibility, MFA, segmentation, logging, patching, incident-response exercises that account for OT realities, and cross-border collaboration.