No Safe Distance: The Business Impact of Recent Global Developments

This spotlight explains that the US–Israel–Iran conflict has moved into the commercial cyber domain: Iranian state-aligned actors, proxies, and affiliated hacktivists are targeting vendors, cloud platforms, supply chains, critical infrastructure, and IoT/surveillance devices with DDoS, credential theft, destructive malware, and supply-chain tactics. The report outlines escalation risks (attacks on power, water, hospitals; supply-chain compromise; cameras as footholds) and prescribes prioritized supply-chain mapping, tightened privileged access, review of internet-connected devices, and tested offline backups.