Critical infrastructures provide the services and systems we can't live without. We depend on them to reliably and affordably supply clean water, electricity, food, transport, access to the internet and financial services. These things are so important to our everyday lives that we usually don't even think about them. 

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We rely on them so much, they fade into the background and become invisible - we often don't notice they're there until they stop working. We also take for granted that they'll always be safe and keep going without any problems.

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But there is already a problem, and quite a serious one. These vast systems that enable our everyday lives aren't ready for disruptive future change. Our world is changing fast, creating an uncertain environment where complex, emergent risks evolve at an accelerating pace, have greater impacts, operate across larger scales, and don't happen in isolation, but trigger, amplify, compound and escalate one another.