Transport organisations sit at the heart of UK Critical National Infrastructure, but digital transformation, legacy systems and operational complexity are creating new cyber resilience challenges. Bridewell’s 2026 research explores the threats, pressures and priorities shaping cyber security across the transport sector.
What You’ll Learn
Transport organisations face a unique combination of passenger services, operational technology, long-lived infrastructure, complex supplier ecosystems and growing digital dependence. This report examines how those pressures are affecting cyber strategy, incident response, AI governance and operational resilience.
Inside the report, discover:
- Why managing AI cyber risk is the transport sector’s biggest cyber security challenge.
- How data protection, cloud security, cyber resilience and regulatory compliance are shaping sector priorities.
- Why transport organisations report the highest concern around AI cyber risk of any CNI sector surveyed.
- How IT disruption, operational disruption, increased cyber security budgets, data loss and revenue loss are affecting transport organisations after cyber incidents.
- Why outdated software and unavailable patches on legacy equipment remain a significant source of operational risk.
- How phishing, business email compromise, malware, unauthorised system access and supply chain attacks continue to expose transport environments.
- Why response times reveal a resilience gap, with data theft incidents taking more than 17 hours to respond to on average.
- How increasing connectivity, digital transformation and evolving cyber threats are driving cyber security maturity more than regulation alone.
- Why cyber security and operational resilience are becoming inseparable as transport organisations modernise critical services.
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