According to cloud services provider Cloud Carib, resilience planning for critical infrastructure such as utilities against cyberattacks must be a collective effort involving both the private and public sectors.
Resilience planning focuses on an organization’s ability to withstand, recover, and adapt following a cyberattack. Cloud Carib, in a release responding to comments made by Dexter Adderley, FOCOL Holdings president and chief executive, who said that the nation’s electricity grid faces cybersecurity threats, said: “We support the comments made by Mr. Adderley on the importance of data sovereignty, as digital systems that support critical infrastructure continue to evolve globally.”
Adderley, speaking at a University of The Bahamas event last week, said: “As our grids become smarter, more connected and more digitized, our energy law is now inseparable from issues of data governance, cybersecurity and national resilience. The same systems that improve efficiency and reliability also expand our exposure to cyber threats.”
Adderley also said that the country’s national energy policy recognizes this risk, and outlines concrete measures to address it, such as segmenting networks, enforcing strict regulations, and mandating cyber incident reporting.
“The lesson was clear. As grids modernize, the attack surface expands and governance must keep pace. Our own national policy on one national energy policy framework recognizes this reality,” said Adderley.
He continued: “It acknowledges that digitization and smart grids increase vulnerability to cyber threats, and it points to responses like network segmentation, multi-factor authentication, cybersecurity awareness training, and strong derogatory requirements, including mandatory cyber reporting.”
Cloud Carib also said: “For Cloud Carib, sovereignty means keeping critical data and the surrounding controls within the region and under local control, and he is right that strengthening resilience requires all facets at the table, including operators, regulators, legal stakeholders, supply chain partners, and technical teams, as part of a collective effort across both the public and private sectors.
“Especially as international attacks have shown, critical infrastructure is a distinct target class of its own, which is why sovereignty and coordinated resilience planning matter more than ever in a rapidly growing digital world.”
Electricity grid cyber-attacks target industrial control systems (ICS) and operational technology (OT) to cause power outages, damage infrastructure, or disrupt, as seen in the late 2025/early 2026 attacks on Polish power systems.
These threats are increasing, with a focus on smart meters and renewable energy, often aimed at creating cascading failures. Risks include long-term blackout damage, industrial accidents, and loss of critical services.