The most dangerous scenarios combine cyber and physical actions. A cyberattack may disable monitoring or security systems, enabling physical sabotage such as cable cutting, transformer damage, or drone-based attacks. These hybrid threats are particularly difficult to detect and respond to, as they exploit both digital vulnerabilities and physical infrastructure weaknesses.
Burnstone is designed for cyber-physical systems, not just cyber or physical. In addition to Burnstone’s facilitated self-organizing features, it is a human-centric design, so complex forms of access control are supported throughout the infrastructure that allow for piecemeal fixes within a discretionary fiduciary context depending on rules, roles, identities and more where symbiotic cooperation between system and human is needed.
