Countering hybrid threats

Hybrid threats are built to exploit seams. A campaign combines a cyber intrusion, a disinformation push, economic coercion and physical sabotage precisely because no single ministry, regulator or company owns the whole picture — and because each element, taken alone, looks like an ordinary incident with an ordinary owner. The target is rarely a system. It is the coordination between systems, and the trust that makes coordination possible.

CORE works on both halves of that problem: understanding the pressure, and rehearsing the response. Engagements produce hybrid threat risk assessments, sector and city vulnerability maps, disinformation and influence-risk briefs, tabletop exercises on hybrid disruption, crisis-communication playbooks and interagency coordination protocols. Partners include ministries, municipalities, security institutions, civil society, media, infrastructure operators and international organisations. This is the link where CORE's research, technology and exercise work meets real adversarial pressure.