About Adversary Wire
Adversary Wire is a threat intelligence publication for business leaders and security professionals who need to understand the threats their organisations face — without the noise, jargon, and vendor bias that characterises most cybersecurity media.
We cover the threats that matter: state-sponsored campaigns targeting critical infrastructure, ransomware operations disrupting essential services, and the emerging threat actors and techniques that will be tomorrow's headlines. Our analysis is grounded in public intelligence sources, government advisories, and the accumulated body of documented incident reporting.
Who we write for
Our primary audience is the people who bear responsibility for cyber risk in their organisations: board members and executives who need to understand what they're being asked to invest in, security leaders who need context beyond the technical detail, and risk and compliance professionals who need to translate threat intelligence into governance decisions.
We don't assume deep technical knowledge, but we don't dumb things down either. We assume you're intelligent, informed, and time-poor.
What we cover
We focus on the sectors where the consequences of a significant cyber incident extend beyond financial loss to operational disruption, public safety risk, or national security implications:
- Operational Technology and Industrial Control Systems — the factories, utilities, and physical infrastructure that state actors are actively pre-positioning in
- Critical National Infrastructure — energy, water, and the interconnected systems that underpin national resilience
- Healthcare — NHS trusts and the broader health sector, perennially targeted and chronically under-resourced
- Finance — banks, payment infrastructure, and the financial services sector facing sophisticated criminal and state-backed threats
- Transport — logistics, aviation, and rail, where operational disruption has cascading effects across supply chains
- Communications — telecoms carriers and ISPs, including the consequences of nation-state compromise of lawful intercept infrastructure
Sources and standards
Our analysis draws on published government advisories (NCSC, CISA, ENISA), documented incident reports, academic research, and the body of open-source threat intelligence that the security community produces. We cite our sources and distinguish clearly between confirmed reporting, assessed intelligence, and our own analysis.
We don't publish unverified claims, and we don't speculate beyond what the evidence supports. Where things are uncertain, we say so.
Independence
Adversary Wire is an independent publication. We don't accept sponsored content, vendor briefings that come with strings attached, or advertising that creates conflicts with our editorial judgement. Our analysis is our own.