SecurityScorecard Weekly Brief: The Cyber Risk and Policy Edition - Amanda Smith

🏛️In this week’s Weekly Brief: The Cyber Risk and Policy Edition, SecurityScorecard’s Director, Public Sector Channel Amanda Smith breaks down why the U.S. war with Iran is more than just what takes place on the physical battlefront.

🌐 In 2026, as conflict unfolds in the Middle East, the digital battlefield has a direct impact on the homeland and U.S. critical infrastructure, too.

“It's a global digital confrontation that hits a lot closer to home than a lot of people realize.”

📡 For Smith, it’s important to remember that public water utilities, electric utilities, natural gas, emergency response, and telecommunications networks, to name a few, are key targets for U.S. adversaries and attacks on these systems can directly impact daily lives of people in the U.S.

⚠️ And for bad actors and digital adversaries, the third-party supply chain is often the way in. “They know there are inroads across multiple platforms, across multiple technologies that they can use to try getting into our systems.”

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